Pandora, the primary mortal girl, was created by the gods as a part of Zeus’s plan to punish humanity for Prometheus’s theft of fireplace [1].
She was gifted with magnificence and intelligence, and Zeus despatched her to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. For the marriage present, Zeus gave Pandora a jar (usually interpreted as a “field”) and warned her by no means to open it [1].
Regardless of warnings, Pandora was curious. She opened the jar, releasing the world’s bringers of evils—leaving solely hope trapped inside [2].
Since then, “to open a Pandora’s Field” has been synonymous with doing or beginning one thing that will trigger many unexpected issues [3].
Evaluating this to my skilled life, the one event I felt like I had opened “Pandora’s Field” was after I started engaged on an information cloud migration/greenfield challenge a number of years in the past.
And the humorous factor is that this thought hasn’t modified years later, even after engaged on two further and virtually similar initiatives.
Not solely did I expertise new “bringers of evil” with each new information cloud migration challenge, however I additionally…