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Maybe they should hire IBM to invent a virtual L5 cache for the website and "magically" move it all into our L2s for "government-authorized nuclear bunker" leve

Maybe they should hire IBM to invent a virtual L5 cache for the website and "magically" move it all into our L2s for "government-authorized nuclear bunker" level service.

moralestapia 5y ago
Maybe they DID hire IBM and made all those things and still, after some years and a couple million dollars, the platform delivered can't handle more than 1,000 or so visitors.
- littlestymaar 5y ago
  Story time: in the early 2010, Oracle managed to sell two (yes, one for redundancy obviously) enormous mainframes to the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) just to host their Intranet portal. I don't remember how much each costed exactly, but IIRC it was a six digit figure. And the funniest part of that story: the mainframes where so heavy they couldn't fit the existing server room, so they were parked for months in a warehouse, unplugged, waiting for some new dedicated server room to be built. (I don't know if the said server was eventually built or not, and if the mainframes were actually used or not in the end).
  - reacharavindh 5y ago
    Oh oh I got one. I visited the “server room” of the organisation responsible for e-healthcare(the software application that was in use by all public hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies in one state of India) as a consultant to learn the following. Their server room is in an old repurposed residential building on the second floor! The only ways to get there were either through narrow winding steps, or an ancient metal elevator that creaks and is also made for tiny humans. IBM managed to sell two Mainframes(Z10) to run their Java apps. The mainframes could not be brought in because of the elevator problem. I kid you not, they brought welders on site to dismantle the racks, and then weld them back again inside the “server room”! Cooling for the “server room” with two mainframes you ask? A few airconditioners that you’d typically installed at home and a table fan(I don’t know why it was there). They were concerned about performance issues on their Java applications which were simply “JVM runs out of memory about every day”. I luckily could bail out of that nightmare and escaped the whole situation. I could only think about the govt employees who were in charge of purchasing that got to go on fancy vacations paid for by IBM. I obviously don’t know if it’s the case, but my own amusing speculation to explain the irrational purchase.

Maybe they should hire IBM to invent a virtual L5 cache for the website and "magically" move it all into our L2s for "government-authorized nuclear bunker" level service.

moralestapia 5y ago

Maybe they DID hire IBM and made all those things and still, after some years and a couple million dollars, the platform delivered can't handle more than 1,000 or so visitors.

littlestymaar 5y ago
Story time: in the early 2010, Oracle managed to sell two (yes, one for redundancy obviously) enormous mainframes to the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) just to host their Intranet portal. I don't remember how much each costed exactly, but IIRC it was a six digit figure. And the funniest part of that story: the mainframes where so heavy they couldn't fit the existing server room, so they were parked for months in a warehouse, unplugged, waiting for some new dedicated server room to be built. (I don't know if the said server was eventually built or not, and if the mainframes were actually used or not in the end).
- reacharavindh 5y ago
  Oh oh I got one. I visited the “server room” of the organisation responsible for e-healthcare(the software application that was in use by all public hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies in one state of India) as a consultant to learn the following. Their server room is in an old repurposed residential building on the second floor! The only ways to get there were either through narrow winding steps, or an ancient metal elevator that creaks and is also made for tiny humans. IBM managed to sell two Mainframes(Z10) to run their Java apps. The mainframes could not be brought in because of the elevator problem. I kid you not, they brought welders on site to dismantle the racks, and then weld them back again inside the “server room”! Cooling for the “server room” with two mainframes you ask? A few airconditioners that you’d typically installed at home and a table fan(I don’t know why it was there). They were concerned about performance issues on their Java applications which were simply “JVM runs out of memory about every day”. I luckily could bail out of that nightmare and escaped the whole situation. I could only think about the govt employees who were in charge of purchasing that got to go on fancy vacations paid for by IBM. I obviously don’t know if it’s the case, but my own amusing speculation to explain the irrational purchase.