Ten of Swords — The Rewrite

▲ Upright +2

The system is down and this time it is not coming back the way it was. The Ten of Swords is the outage that finally killed the argument against rewriting. Every workaround, every patch, every 'we will fix it next quarter' -- they are all in the incident timeline now. The good news is that you have hit the bottom. The rewrite is not a proposal anymore. It is a fact.

▽ Reversed -2

You know the system needs to be replaced and you will not do it. The Ten of Swords reversed is the team that keeps resuscitating a service that has been failing for two years because the rewrite estimate is 'too expensive,' as if the current state is free. Every month you do not start is a month added to the timeline. You know this. You have always known this.