There are several activities in software that are similar to maintenance of physical products. e.g.
* that parsing library that you used 2 years ago and was in good working order then, is now outdated and has known vulnerabilities that are not present in the latest version, apply update.
* Those cloud-hosted databases that you use are an older version that the cloud vendor has deprecated and will some time withdraw support for, apply migration to a later one.
There are several activities in software that are similar to maintenance of physical products. e.g.
* that parsing library that you used 2 years ago and was in good working order then, is now outdated and has known vulnerabilities that are not present in the latest version, apply update.
* Those cloud-hosted databases that you use are an older version that the cloud vendor has deprecated and will some time withdraw support for, apply migration to a later one.