Could be worse, I guess. You could have been like one of those poor shlubs who post "FIRST!!!111!" only to find out their comment is third or fourth in the list.
That would have been particularly exceedingly lame on your own blog.
Indeed. I figure if I'm going to aim for the low-hanging fruit, I'm going to make sure it's not only low-hanging, but secured, labeled, tagged, bagged, and the only association it has left with the tree is the stem.
What I want to see is the folks at the hosting facility writing "I will ensure that I have sufficient generator power for all the servers my management sold" 1,000 times.
Heee. Many many years ago, I worked for a VAR, and management noticed that disk storage was climbing fast, so they pitched contracts in terms of storage, not spindles.
After all, we could deliver the same storage on the mainframe with half the drives, that's just found money!
Except of course that the same storage on half the spindles has a serious performance and load balance hit...
One of the last projects I managed at That Place was a provisioning engine that would not only set users up in the system, but also provide capacity monitoring for the servers. The goal was we'd a) fail a provisioning event when the servers were too full (not *entirely* full, but full enough that performance or capacity maximums were likely to be reached) and b) well before that point, provide feedback to the operations team ranging from "Service X is at threshold capacity (usually 50-60%, depending on the service); additional capacity will be needed soon" to "Hey, dipshit! Customers want to give us money, but they can't because the servers are full! Add a fucking server NOW!"
One of the few projects and teams from my latter days there of which I'm proud. Naturally, our management tried to make sure we didn't deliver it in a form that could be useful to *anyone*, and sadly most of my pride is from the fact that we defied them and delivered two complete working versions, one for internal consumption and one for sale to external ISPs. This, of course, meant the end of my career there. But I'd do it again every time. :)
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Date: 2007-07-25 03:28 pm (UTC)Wow, that's like, even *less* impressive than being the first person to post a comment on someone *else's* blog. I stand amazed.
Well, sit, actually.
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Date: 2007-07-25 03:34 pm (UTC)Sometimes, going for the *exceedingly* low hanging fruit is so lame as to be fun.
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Date: 2007-07-25 03:57 pm (UTC)Sadly, the fun is ephemeral, but the people are not. :)
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Date: 2007-07-25 05:37 pm (UTC)That would have been particularly exceedingly lame on your own blog.
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Date: 2007-07-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-07-25 04:42 pm (UTC)What I want to see is the folks at the hosting facility writing "I will ensure that I have sufficient generator power for all the servers my management sold" 1,000 times.
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Date: 2007-07-25 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-25 04:55 pm (UTC)After all, we could deliver the same storage on the mainframe with half the drives, that's just found money!
Except of course that the same storage on half the spindles has a serious performance and load balance hit...
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Date: 2007-07-25 05:17 pm (UTC)One of the few projects and teams from my latter days there of which I'm proud. Naturally, our management tried to make sure we didn't deliver it in a form that could be useful to *anyone*, and sadly most of my pride is from the fact that we defied them and delivered two complete working versions, one for internal consumption and one for sale to external ISPs. This, of course, meant the end of my career there. But I'd do it again every time. :)