staofbur

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by staofbur 9y ago
Not quite. We scaled it to 50x the user count at the same time.
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by staofbur 9y ago
iOS reminders, notes and Siri. I run a financial/budget spreadsheet in Numbers. Shopping comes via Ocado.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Yes. I saw the last days of a VMS cluster (actual VAX not Alpha) system being ported to windows/vb/com/asp. The speed difference was actually incredible. It ended up on a mediocre single Xeon 500MHz P3. At the end of the day,
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by staofbur 9y ago
That doesn't happen because you don't let them have the credential vault keys. In fact no humans get them; just the build and deployment pipeline.
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by staofbur 9y ago
The trick is to make sure that if the credentials do leak they are useless.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Yes it was a "hardware lock" i.e. the holder of the spoon was allowed to diff their copy with the master on a file share and update that. The spoon was used as a casual weapon to beat idiots as well in jest ;)
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by staofbur 9y ago
Ansible vault, separate repository to the code and you're fine. You're up shit creek if you lose your code too unless you're 100% perfect so there is no distinction in policy. Hell if you're using vault you might as well
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by staofbur 9y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to put your credentials and configuration into a VCS if any secrets are in ansible vault or something similar. I reckon they either stuffed it all in as plain text or someone got hold of their source code and
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by staofbur 9y ago
Hey, the spoon worked well, until I bought another one and left it in the office :) They had SVN running for everyone a week after and a month later they were running feature branches.
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by staofbur 9y ago
I'm always late to the party. I'm the cleanup team :)
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by staofbur 9y ago
You can, hence my comment about silos. The interface is rarely well defined enough to be able to abstract it over a network boundary from experience. One of the things I see in a lot of monoliths is leaky abstractions and they are really di
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by staofbur 9y ago
I'd argue it's cheaper scaling out the monolith or introducing isolated functional silos and scaling them out than even bothering migrating everything to microservices. Also you certainly can't port a complex monolith to mic
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by staofbur 9y ago
Indeed. Apparently some of the human race loves suffering! To be honest, even though we were just pulling TortoiseSVN into most of the companies, some people just couldn't figure it out even after being bought books, reading the manual
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by staofbur 9y ago
A lot of the companies, software was a function of the business, not the business itself. There was no motivation for the staff to do anything other than minimal effort or even research what their job was about. There was no pride, no ingen
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by staofbur 9y ago
About 50% of the companies I consulted for between 2004-2013 had no issue tracker. Most emailed and/or emailed spreadsheets around. What's even more shocking is about 25% of them didn't even use a VCS, most relying on some po
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by staofbur 9y ago
Good spot. BMJ won't be crowing that one though.
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by staofbur 9y ago
I had a 50-odd CD set of voyager data dumps from NASA once. Not sure what happened to them but the data was out there and obtainable. Edit: turns out you can download at least some of them from archive.org! https://archive.org&#x
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by staofbur 9y ago
We did that. They were still finger pointing two hours later. Legal guys said it wasn't worth suing them because we'd have to pay up then or lose the support contract.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Yeah a big chunk of that was consultancy, support, Oracle licenses. TCO was going to be around £500k for 5 years. The whole platform got replaced with SQL Server on a clone PC server in the end which cost less than £10k. No fan of Microsoft
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by staofbur 9y ago
Back in about 1999, I was working for a big corporate and one of our Oracle admins lost her shit and had a meltdown, think it was around 8i era. She just got up and walked out shouting "fuck this fucking shit, I quit". This was on
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by staofbur 9y ago
This is incidentally where .Net was around the 1.1 release (2003ish) We had code generation frameworks kicking out swathes of boiler plate. Now Repository<T> and for us around 200,000 lines of code are gone and only one narrow set of
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by staofbur 9y ago
Another bit of advice I can give from dealing with a few particularly shitty vendors is that if you can't actually download a copy from their web site or extract one from their sales team and see it in action yourself, they have someth
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by staofbur 9y ago
Acorn delivered proper WYSIWYG that actually worked on RiscOS around the same time. Everyone else was still playing with WordPerfect. TechWriter depicted below and impression were ridiculously powerful: http://www.mw-software.co
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by staofbur 9y ago
Well you buy one RHEL and use centos everywhere then pretend whatever broke was on your RHEL licensed box. That's usually how corporates seem to run it. I haven't seen a single Fedora install in all my years on a desktop or server
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by staofbur 9y ago
Yeah I burned hours on powertop and TLP.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Thanks have passed your details on to our expert in this space. For the public record this was mainly down to the problem of client reliability and migrating data live when there are 8,000 people hammering it with reads and writes. We went
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by staofbur 9y ago
I work for a Fortune 500 and we don't like it either.
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by staofbur 9y ago
Excellent. I'll play with that and see how it feels now.
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by staofbur 9y ago
I've been building windows applications, right down from Win32/ATL/MFC/C++/DCOM and up to C#/WPF/ASP.Net for 25 years and managed teams of 80+ developers. I can drive windows in my sleep. It's not tha
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by staofbur 9y ago
It's just crap at storing files!

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