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The day that the C64 will break, they have to migrate to a “modern” solution that requires 10 Ghz CPUs with 1024 cores, 20 TB of RAM, that will be running on No
by rullopat 10y ago
The day that the C64 will break, they have to migrate to a “modern” solution that requires 10 Ghz CPUs with 1024 cores, 20 TB of RAM, that will be running on NodeJS that will have have a MongoDB database for transaction and that will communicate with a VBA script running on the same host in a virtual machine with Windows 2016 through Redis running in a container thanks to Kubernetes.
- zeveb 10y agoAnd they'll be lucky to get uptime upwards of 80%. And only lose 1% of their customers' data. Seriously, old software wasn't necessarily better (I well remember the old Mac system bomb dialogues!), but it certainly was leaner and forced not to be so complex.
- amiga-workbench 10y agoModern """""""enterprise""""""" solutions in a nutshell. Just throw in a shitty call-home activation DRM scheme and an authorisation server with 50% uptime too.
- forgottenpass 10y agoModern """""""enterprise""""""" solutions in a nutshell. lul. My Java project with a bunch of maven dependencies and a slightly unwieldy number of superfluous classes doesn't have anything on modern startup's tech fetishism to over-complicate operating a website "at scale" these days.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoFunny days, when modern web development turns out to be more bloated than Enterprise Java solutions.
- amiga-workbench 10y agoIts depressing. When the hell did it become normal to suck down 3mb of javascript and poke an API just to display some otherwise static text on a webpage.
- abritinthebay 10y agoWhen Ads became a thing. Most of that 3mb is 3rd party ad scripts and analytics trackers. Basically - when it became obvious that people wouldn't pay for content and companies had to monitize the users. It's lame, but.. well... suggestions?
- stryk 10y agoMake content that is worth paying for
- voltagex_ 10y agoGive me a way to pay for arbitrary content in a browser that works everywhere.
- abritinthebay 10y agoEven when publishers do people don't want to pay for it. This has happened time and time again. Also because paying for content is ugly, hard, and not easy online. Subscriptions are clunky and micropayments have never taken off.
- CSDude 10y agoTrust me, It is much more worse when you combine enterprise java with modern web.
- tscs37 10y agoI was always under the impression that java would kinda self-implode when it was put together with the modern web.
- forgottenpass 10y agoEven if that were the case, how would you even notice? The modern web is an ongoing implosion.
- ajnin 10y agoAnd that will come with an expensive yearly renewable cloud subscription ...
- GirlsCanCode 10y agoThey can move to an emulator on a Raspberry Pi
- fetbaffe 10y agoDivided on ten plus micro services that all need their own keep alive scripts.
- sparky_ 10y agohttps://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
- alkonaut 10y agoThis is where the "computer" should be replaced by the "appliance". Simple raspberry machines in rugged enclosures running ONE piece of simple software off flash cards. If it breaks it's a matter of either just inserting the backup flash card (because the old one died) or worse case replacing the raspberry inside the box. Either way it's dirt cheap. The shop can easily be given 3 raspberries and a dozen flashcards when the system is first installed, for almost no money. Even if the software vendor is out of business when it breaks in 10 years, they are good to go in no time at all. Any auto mechanic can swap the raspberry inside the case in 10 minutes and be up and running again.
- RottenHuman 10y agoDon't you run into limitations of raspberry's real time capabilities with a task like this? A REAL, microcontroller based, appliance, which is connected through a serial port to any PC, would be more suitable.
- alkonaut 10y agoYeah it depends on the task in question but I was thinking in general- Appliances should look and work as such. The most important thing though is getting rid of the PC where it isn't necessary and making the whole thing an appliance. Otherwise the PC will be the weakest link in the system. It can be replaced but it's expensive and cumbersome (updates, security, etc) if all you want is the appliance for balancing axles. I doubt there are any difficult hardware requirements for a task like this, if it's like balancing wheels it's no harder than (slow) analog sampling. I have done it with a cheap analog io card on a 386 with DOS for regular auto shop balancing.