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Google's search engine is more than 10 years old, yet Google is still hiring engineers. Why is that? Should they not have managed lights-out automation for it?

More importantly, the world changes and software has to change with it. An accounting system will need to be fitted to changing regulatory frameworks in the future. That knowledge is the basis of good application design. Schemaamnesia databases with highly-scalable vendor-locked PaaS peripherals that are constantly changing also require constant developer attention, but do not rise to that challenge.



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