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“It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the backend.” Just read this in the book The Phoenix Project by @realgenekim.bsky.social , Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. Funny how actual it sounds.

Raphael De Lio

@raphaeldelio.dev

They were referring to a database reporting tool that was implemented by a summer marketing intern. Given age only had a couple of months to work on it, it was actually pretty brilliant. It started being used in daily operations and consequently it was handed off to the IT department to support it

18/4/26, 9:33 am0 reposts0 likes

Raphael De Lio

@raphaeldelio.dev

18 Apr

When auditors found out they couldn’t secure Access with all the data, they spent weeks cobbling together something that satisfied them. It’s like a free puppy… they say. Because it’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the backend.