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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

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Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

I’ve heard people wondering if people that say sequel are baguette-eating surrender monkeys.

Those people are only in my head but I heard them.

Bill Gates pronounces it as sequel, as in “sequel server”. I think you are due for a booster.

Jam

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Have even heard people wondering if people that say S-Q-L are inexperienced.

I’ve heard people wondering if people that say sequel are baguette-eating surrender monkeys.

Those people are only in my head but I heard them.

Bill Gates pronounces it as sequel, as in “sequel server”. I think you are due for a booster.

Fuck Bill Gates.

I hate him now as much as you do!

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One of our servers, probably the main server for most business functions, has 5 terabytes of RAM and is otherwise configured up the wazoo with the most premium disk and CPUs that Azure has to offer.

It runs like shit. It’s always run like shit but we had a software version upgrade and now it’s often unusable. Some of the business functions that used to take 10 minutes (but should have been much less) can take hours now and it’s affecting production.

There’s a 24/7 bridge call set up for the crisis that I get sucked into occasionally that occasionally produces actions like*Hog, explain why this complex application that you’ve never seen before today and is slow and report back in an hour with your recommendations". And they’ll hassle you for updates exactly within the hour if you haven’t reported back because you don’t understand wtf the app is doing functionally let alone technically…

A couple of times it’s looked like I’m going to have to rewrite whole apps or re-architect others while the business bleeds and IT management drums their fingers and hovers over my shoulders.

Thankfully it seems that the penny has dropped that it’s not an app specific problem but something wrong with the system. I’m hearing things like some process or other trying to use 50 gigabytes of cache that’s only been configured to allow 5 megabytes.

Of course, I’m not counting on that so I’m trying to learn as much as I can about the apps and processes I might have to rewrite at no notice.

Fuck me, IT is stressful sometimes. I have some talents but one of them isn’t thinking well and understanding stuff under extreme time pressure.

I just dealt with a server hang that unlike most of ours actually affects patient care. You could have that pressure.

Anything with 5 TB of memory is either a supercomputer modeling climate or Mach 25 missiles, is a central Google AI, or is badly configured and Microsoft is enjoying charging rental on the moron designing the thing.

I’m guessing the latter.

The whole ERP + is run on an in-memory database. I only found out about the 5 terabyte RAM figure when I asked the obvious question yesterday, “Has anyone discussed upgrading the machine?” That’s when I was told it was already way above spec. It’s a big company with a lot of data but I asked Bard what was typical for large companies using that product and it said one to two terabytes of RAM. I don’t know if we just have more data or just don’t know how to configure it. I did see one of the external support consultants from the vendor post a screenshot of Azure pricing in the bridge chat so maybe we’re going to give it even more :)

(But seriously, I doubt we’re going to add more RAM - I didn’t read actually read the context of the post).

Did you ever ask them why they are asking an application developer to troubleshoot server configurations instead of someone that knows about that shit? And maybe get the networking assholes in the room too to see if they might be the bottleneck?

It’s a fair point but the users had been complaining generally about performance since the upgrade went live and the technical team that looks after performance had been repeating that, aside from the odd spike, the system was healthy.

Then one of the critical processes for production shat itself and the symptom was “user clicks this button and has to wait 2 to 5 minutes, then clicks this button and has to wait…” etc. Since that was the specific issue that got elevated to P2⁺ and I was nominated before the upgrade for 24/7 hypercare (all apps, not just the ones I’d worked on) I got roped in on the crisis team to fix the issue. I didn’t know all the context so I started with looking at what the app was doing.

⁺(I don’t think there is a P1 or I’ve never heard of it. I assume if it happens it means I should start looking for another job.)

Didn’t you say your contract was ending anyway? Also did you try rebooting?

Yeah I’ll be finished in three weeks time. In between having 5 teams chats going off like a pinball machine, I’m trying to document extra stuff for the next poor slob. That poor slob might turn out to be me if my two bosses get their way but it’s far from guaranteed. I’m not sure whether I’d be happier if I get extended next year or happier if I don’t. Anyway, I told them I’m away all of January and I’m not fussed if they don’t have me back until February or March. Regardless, I’m going to stop thinking about it as soon as I hit the beach.

The friend who I work through in Australia told me yesterday that the client were hinting at renewing me if I dropped my rate. He does the same work as I do (at a different company) and he said it was ridiculous. I told him honestly that I don’t much care if they renew me or not and he could tell them that. Anyway, I got renewed today until the end of March so I’m glad I didn’t drop my rate in a hurry. I’m still on vacation for a month starting at Christmas so it all turned out ok.

Gators1

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Wish I’d seen this a week ago:

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Gators1

Tiktoks don’t prove anything! It’s le sequel!

Pakoon

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Wish I’d seen this a week ago:

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He’s wrong too.

Pakoon

Lol, what I was referring to was not how to pronounce the SQL part. MySQL is named after the developer’s daughter whose name is My and it’s not pronounced the same way you guys pronounce ‘my’.