In the early 2000s, Sun's patching support website, sunsolve, was a massive Apache/CGI empire. Perf. problems were rife and by early 2002 the whole thing was gr

In the early 2000s, Sun's patching support website, sunsolve, was a massive Apache/CGI empire. Perf. problems were rife and by early 2002 the whole thing was grinding to a halt under traffic. It just happened to be intern season. In walks some fresh-faced kid and installs mod_perl. Like magic, the entire website stands up, dusts itself off and starts working again. CPU load drops by two thirds. I think the senior engineers were kind of pissed but couldn't really say anything. I think the kid got a beer or two out of the whole thing. (And of course got an offer to stay.)