By 2021, the rest of the world had moved through two entire generations of PHP without this server noticing. It was still running 5.4 on RHEL 6, like handing someone […]
He Didn’t Ask Four Developers to Work Faster. He Took the Project Away From Them.
Three-quarters of a mile. Every morning. Or a shuttle that showed up whenever it felt like it. For two to three years, I counted down the months like a kid […]
Twelve Thousand Phone Calls to a Database, to Load One Screen
Somebody handed me a dashboard that took 20 to 30 seconds to load. Not because the server was slow. Because it was placing twelve thousand phone calls to a database […]
I Spent Two Weeks Convinced I’d Broken Something. The Real Bug Was a Manager’s Screen Left Open.
I spent two weeks convinced I’d broken something. Turned out the actual problem was managers, more than one, leaving employees’ performance reviews open on their screens, unattended, for hours. The […]