Nobody funds the second decade of a system. We spent four months with the teams keeping thirty-year-old infrastructure running, and asked what it actually costs to not rewrite.
The rewrite that never paid
Three ledgers, eleven years, and the migration that quietly outlived its sponsors.
Who reads the runbook
On-call rotations as an archive of everything the documentation left out.
Budgets for boring work
How four organisations learned to fund upkeep without calling it a project.