The Grand Migration.

Shortly after a senior leader joins a new company, you’ll often notice them steer the organization towards a total architectural rewrite. Perhaps this is a switch from batch to streaming computation, from monolith to services, or adopting a new programming language. If you take a few minutes to reflect, I bet you can identify several times where you’ve had this experience.

Regardless of the proposed technical change, it’s almost always coupled with the promise of fixing a broad swath of organiz...