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Being Enron's SysAdmin

Posted by Zonk on from the big-time dept.

CowboyRobot writes "FreeBSD's Kirk McKusick has a long interview with Enron's former SysAdmin, Jarod Jenson, where he describes the nuts and bolts of working in and managing such a large-scale operation." From the article: "EnronOnline was a Web-based trading application. We had several hundred, even thousands of commodities that we would price in realtime, the same way that equities are priced. We were trying to push realtime pricing information out to clients who could do instantaneous transactions on them. People who are familiar with financial markets--the commodity markets--would recognize EnronOnline as sort of the same thing. We had a lot of the same issues that the markets had trying to push out realtime data--not only within our local network but also to the customers--as quickly as we could globally, and trying to make sure that what every trader saw on the screen matched what every company in the world had on theirs."

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  1. Realtime performance by NightWulf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if EnronOnline had realtime showing of the stockholders assets flying out the window.

  2. Just two words... by ValentineMSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    man shred(1)

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    Karma: Chameleon - mostly influenced by bad '80s New Wave music
  3. I bet he had an easy job.. by alfrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "rm -rf /" on everyone's machines.

  4. Re:Kirk McKusick & Jarod Jenson by thinbits · · Score: 2, Funny

    These can't be real names ;-)

    No. That's their porn names.

  5. EOL by superflytnt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is anybody else seeing the humor in an application called "EOL"? (end-of-life) ?