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[ Update March 2024 ]
+"Legacy displacement" is now a fairly mature part of software engineering, though most computer science graduates won't have heard of it. There are standard ways of partially and incrementally retiring old systems and replacing them, while maintaining a live service to users throughout. See Legacy Displacement. - -Option 2
+ [ Update May 2025 ]
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What we have learned over the past 6 years, as we have tried to simplify troggle, is that the essential quality of django that we use the most is indexing: being able to find a cave, entrance, logbook entry, survex file etc. with a query. +
Also, we do not use the database because we have have a lot of data (it's tiny), but because it gives us multi-user serialization. +
So many of the previous efforts to "improve things" have been aimed at improving the wrong things. + +
Option 2
We keep the same architecture as now, and incrementally replace modules that use django/SQL with direct object storage of collections using pickle(), shelve() and json(). Concurrency is not a problem as all data is read-only (this is not entirely true - see below).