DB2 Cutover Friction, Calendar Routing, and the Email 3.0 Pivot
This stretch did not begin like a clean new feature arc. Brett was still recovering from the previous board-engine work, the sessions kept restarting, and the biggest discoveries came from what failed when the admin frontend tried to lean on DB2 more aggressively. Calendar requests were still falling through to the wrong handler, pagination was lying about totals, and the email system was halfway between its old account tables and a much larger mailbox-first future.