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I have seen stuff done two decades ago in the defense industry which put to shame some of the projects I am working on nowadays: extremely modular architecture
by brmgb 6y ago
I have seen stuff done two decades ago in the defense industry which put to shame some of the projects I am working on nowadays: extremely modular architecture, very good service-oriented framework with hot-swapable and hot-reloadable components, automatic distribution and automatic redundancy for fault tolerance.
There really are some gems out there.
- jacquesm 6y agoDitto here, my friend Jan de Leur, architected the solution for the KVSA, the company that arranges for a very large fraction of all container shipping in the world to be distributed across shipping companies and vessels. We're talking 1983 or so here, the system used QnX, a very early service oriented operating system and was absolutely rock solid and scaled horizontally across many systems (it had to, given the typical system of the day). Using commodity hardware in a cluster of several 10's of PCs the system was hardware fault tolerant and as far as I know never went down except when someone deliberately caused the air conditioning to fail. On a typical monday it would handle several million containerloads without a hitch.
- draw_down 6y agoHmm... it's almost like the organizations who solicit the development of software are not optimizing for the quality of that software, but some other variable. One day I'll figure out what it is.