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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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platform migration

/ˈplæt.fɔːrm maɪ.ˈɡreɪ.ʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Rebuilding every pipeline on the new platform, then keeping the old one running for the four jobs nobody can find.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The project of moving pipelines from one orchestration or processing platform to another, typically motivated by cost, scale, or vendor consolidation.

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See also
  • orchestrationThe discipline of deciding which job runs first, now practiced by three tools that each believe they are in charge.
  • orchestrator sprawlThe state of having three tools to schedule jobs and a fourth, undocumented one to schedule the other three.
  • shadow pipelineThe pipeline the org does not know it depends on, discovered the week the person who ran it stops answering.