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An architecture is good if it is serving your business’ needs. My company makes $13 billion a year off of garbage architecture. If we completely re-engineered it to be perfect, we’d probably still make the same amount of money, it would just cost us hundreds of millions of dollars to do it (actually, we tried and wasted about $300mil).



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