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Example: When I was at the Fed, I worked on a system that moved $100 billion a DAY. Yes, billion. More money flowed through that system every day than the GDP o
by beat 8y ago
Example: When I was at the Fed, I worked on a system that moved $100 billion a DAY. Yes, billion. More money flowed through that system every day than the GDP of most nations. I got to see what happens when you overflow the Money type in Java. We were delivering 10,000 transactions a second on a Unix/Java/Oracle stack, a feat IBM told us could not be done.
You don't get to do stuff like that with your new lead gen app.
- ozim 8y agoI agree, but enterprise or large orgs usually are happy about enforcing strict rules even for internal tools. You deploy tool to 100 internal employees and worst that can happen is someone will have to have longer coffee break because your deploy didn't work. Then you still have to do 1h of paperwork for this internal tool and then another 1h of paperwork for hot fix. That is not how you do risk management.
- user5994461 8y agoHopefully, the next time you will spend 1h during testing beforehand so you don't have to waste 2h filling a postmortem.
- user5994461 8y agoThere are finance startups doing $150 billion a day. Well, there is one at least.
- thecleaner 8y ago> 10,000 transactions a second Could you put those numbers in perspective. Don't know enough to make sense of those. Why did IBM say it couldn't be done and in which year ?