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Yay! I hammer at OpenVMS for 40+ hours/week and this is exciting! We hit 99.99% uptime with new software features being installed being the reason for the dow

Yay! I hammer at OpenVMS for 40+ hours/week and this is exciting! We hit 99.99% uptime with new software features being installed being the reason for the downtime we've had (except for one instance a bunch of years ago, but at that time I would have been in middle school. I do worry about a slowly increasing reaction time to user actions though. Running on X86 we wouldn't have to worry about the future.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
> I hammer at OpenVMS for 40+ hours/week and this is exciting! What's your work like? Or perhaps I should say, what kind of company do you work at to use it?
- tapland 7y ago
  We store the critical customer data (their personal info, what they are paying us for and their settings), build the interfaces for customer service, apis for s that are used on customer web/apps and logic for what is to happen for each call. I'm a dev but including our devs, database and hardware people we are less than 0.05% of the company employees. I'm the youngest and almost everyone is 2x+ my age. We've lost 40% of the team to retirements since I joined two years ago. It's a tight team but communication is oh so inefficient whenever someone is working remote and between our two locations. We have other services now that we make calls to to get for example mail and email sent to customers, but now and then I still see customers receiving plain text email from the production machine D:
  - PeCaN 7y ago
    How'd you find a VMS job anyway?
    - tapland 7y ago
      A company posted a listsing looking for COBOL developers. I thought it would be mainframe and contacted them but they were running OpenVMS.
      - flomo 7y ago
        Awesome, you have a career for life, until you don't.
  - mariuolo 7y ago
    How good is this for your CV? Do you see yourself working with this tech for the next 20+ years?
    - tapland 7y ago
      I have no idea how good it is. Probably not very, but it's a decent paying job where I live, upper levels of what devs make. I studied business and management. Maybe that will be a pro for a new role if they shut down the VMS.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

> I hammer at OpenVMS for 40+ hours/week and this is exciting! What's your work like? Or perhaps I should say, what kind of company do you work at to use it?

tapland 7y ago
We store the critical customer data (their personal info, what they are paying us for and their settings), build the interfaces for customer service, apis for s that are used on customer web/apps and logic for what is to happen for each call. I'm a dev but including our devs, database and hardware people we are less than 0.05% of the company employees. I'm the youngest and almost everyone is 2x+ my age. We've lost 40% of the team to retirements since I joined two years ago. It's a tight team but communication is oh so inefficient whenever someone is working remote and between our two locations. We have other services now that we make calls to to get for example mail and email sent to customers, but now and then I still see customers receiving plain text email from the production machine D:
- PeCaN 7y ago
  How'd you find a VMS job anyway?
  - tapland 7y ago
    A company posted a listsing looking for COBOL developers. I thought it would be mainframe and contacted them but they were running OpenVMS.
    - flomo 7y ago
      Awesome, you have a career for life, until you don't.
- mariuolo 7y ago
  How good is this for your CV? Do you see yourself working with this tech for the next 20+ years?
  - tapland 7y ago
    I have no idea how good it is. Probably not very, but it's a decent paying job where I live, upper levels of what devs make. I studied business and management. Maybe that will be a pro for a new role if they shut down the VMS.