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One of the biggest problems is migrating your data to match updated code, while the system keeps running.

It's like changing the engine of a driving car.

Yes but again you can create a system that allow that from the begining. It's just very, very costly to dev. And if you have legacy code, then a rewrite is even more prohibitive.

It's like changing the beating heart of a living person. That's probably impossible!

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