Years ago I worked at a mortgage company that bought a bank’s mortgage division. The deal was mostly for sales people, but it also included custom software and developers. To ensure that the handover was clean, we were only given the source code.
We had DB Schemas, but no seed data.
This was at the very dawn of Infrastructure-as-code; we didn’t get any.
There were docs about deploying, and there were docs about building servers; they were wildly out of date.
18 months and millions of dollars in salary and opportunity cost later, the project was shut down. We never got the system fully functional. We never got close.
You probably won’t be sold to a competitor, but there’s a decent chance your production environment will get compromised by hackers.
If you lost all running instances of your software and had to rebuild from whatever you had in source control, could you do it?
How long would it take?
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