Evolution of Software Maintenance Pricing Models

For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated? 

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SHOW NOTES:

• AWS increased the price of longer-running EKS clusters by 6x
• Broadcom changes VMware licensing from perpetual to subscription
• Broadcom offers security patches to perpetual license customers
• Increasing the Kubernetes support window to 1 year
• Discovering the XZ backdoor (Oxide and Friends, podcast)

IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?

• Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
• The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
• Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
• Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering

TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE

• Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
• Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
• Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
• Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
• What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?

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