The Case of the Disappearing App

[ Despite being almost 30 years ago, and the finer details being lost in the mists of time, the punchline has always stayed with me – it’s scar tissue I guess :o). ] I was contracting in a team which had taken over a codebase from another company, to try and improve the performance, as it was far below what was needed for even the smaller use cases they had in mind. The front-end was a…