Why do you need to clean your house every week/couple of weeks ?
Why not clean only once a year ?
Keeping your infrastructure/code somehow uptodate ensures:
- each time you have to upgrade, this is not a big deal
- you have less breaking changes at each iteration, thus less work to do
- when you must upgrade for some reasons, the step is, again, not so big
- you are sure you own the infrastructure. That current people owns it (versus people who left the company 8 years ago)
- you benefits from innovation (yes, there is) and/or performance improvements (yes, there is)
Keeping your stuff rotting in a dark room brings nothing good
Keeping your infrastructure/code somehow uptodate ensures: - each time you have to upgrade, this is not a big deal - you have less breaking changes at each iteration, thus less work to do - when you must upgrade for some reasons, the step is, again, not so big - you are sure you own the infrastructure. That current people owns it (versus people who left the company 8 years ago) - you benefits from innovation (yes, there is) and/or performance improvements (yes, there is)
Keeping your stuff rotting in a dark room brings nothing good