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IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia takes up a topic many IT pros face: 'When you've attached enough Band-Aids to the corpus that it's more bandage than not, isn't it time to start over?' The constant need to apply temporary fixes that end up becoming permanent are fast pushing many IT infrastructures beyond repair. Much of the blame falls on the products IT has to deal with. 'As processors have become faster and RAM cheaper, the software vendors have opted to dress up new versions in eye candy and limited-use features rather than concentrate on the foundation of the application. To their credit, code that was written to run on a Pentium-II 300MHz CPU will fly on modern hardware, but that code was also written to interact with a completely different set of OS dependencies, problems, and libraries. Yes, it might function on modern hardware, but not without more than a few Band-Aids to attach it to modern operating systems,' Venezia writes. And yet breaking this 'vicious cycle of bad ideas and worse implementations' by wiping the slate clean is no easy task. Especially when the need for kludges isn't apparent until the software is in the process of being implemented. 'Generally it's too late to change course at that point.'"
...but I believe in Duct Tape.
As long as your backup and tertiary machines have different kludges keeping them running, there's no problem...
There are a lot of people writing shitty software. Film at 11.
... and then they built the supercollider.
If you've worked in a huge shop, you know that the big software vendors send reps out to IT managers for golf outings and the like. Screw it if the software works or not, just fluff up the guy with the budget rubber stamp.
I did not realize my coworkers posted on Slashdot.
Wait, you mean there have been newer and faster processors released since then? So Mordac really has been hiding something from me...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Yeah, that's why the sane firms have rules on accepting gifts.
Yes, and both of them have never looked back!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
We (Apple)...
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...has become a diploma mill for Flash game programmers; sadly, I would not hire recent graduates from there...
Sounds about right to me!
Odds of +1 funny over flamebait/troll/offtopic: slim to none. I just hope your 2548 dies before you can mod me down!
I am shocked! Shocked I tell you. Apple applicants are only attracted to shiny new things? And all along I thought it was just the customers.
Yeah. That only took 15 years.