# Opinion: On Long Term Software Development

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.

Publisher: Bert Hubert's writings — Opinion / commentary.

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Created: 2026-10-25T22:08:31.680933+00:00

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Original source: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/