Excel Wizard Outperforms Engineering Team

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Excel Wizard Outperforms Engineering Team

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The accounting department's Excel wizard has secretly built a more reliable distributed system than your entire engineering team. While you're debugging dependency hell in your microservices architecture, Barbara from accounting has 70 perfectly synchronized Excel sheets running the entire company without a single Kubernetes cluster in sight. Her "legacy system" hasn't crashed in 15 years, and nobody dares ask how it works because the last IT guy who tried is now selling handmade jewelry on Etsy.

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