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I don't think I can agree that "{{language}} tutorial" as a measure of "growth" is valid. When I am looking to learn a language, I don't Google for tutorials because you end up with mostly worthless information and maybe a single result that has any value -- and 9 times of 10 that result is on the website of the language, so my query becomes "{{language}}". Further, as I'm learning a language, I'm more likely to Goog…
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That something is used in production does not mean it is fit for production. Do you have any sources that confirm that this system is in fact reliable? That all of Europes police departments, foreign ministries and embassies use this for international communication puts it at the scale of a smallish web application. The people that use these systems come from a system where data like this is requested by telephone an…
If these systems were not reliable the 500 million tourists visiting the EU last year would not have been able to get a visa or not be able to pass border control points. That's just the visa specific parts, so yeah you could say it's somewhat reliable. The users being used to telephone and fax being the reason they are okay with WCF? Maybe in the 80's, but it's been a while since then. We are talking 10 mill+ daily…
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If these systems were not reliable the 500 million tourists visiting the EU last year would not have been able to get a visa or not be able to pass border control points. That's just the visa specific parts, so yeah you could say it's somewhat reliable. The users being used to telephone and fax being the reason they are okay with WCF? Maybe in the 80's, but it's been a while since then. We are talking 10 mill+ daily…
That's not much. We handle that every 7-10 minutes and these are complex quoting, transformation, credit scoring and CRM functions. WCF has been a big problem for us.
And would you really say that a technology handling such an amount of transactions in such a critical setting is not ready for production?