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Not quite. We scaled it to 50x the user count at the same time.

iOS reminders, notes and Siri. I run a financial/budget spreadsheet in Numbers. Shopping comes via Ocado.

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 …

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.

The trick is to make sure that if the credentials do leak they are useless.

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 b…

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…

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 p…

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 branc…

I'm always late to the party. I'm the cleanup team :)

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 l…

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 ce…

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 i…

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 res…

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 d…

Good spot. BMJ won't be crowing that one though.

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…

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.

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 serv…

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 shou…

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 and for us around 200,000…

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 sal…

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 …

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 Fed…

Yeah I burned hours on powertop and TLP.