Performance Testing applied

A view years back a client's back office system failed and queued all of their web service requests to our system. When they had fixed the issue, their queue was about to get emptied. Too many submissions were executed all at the same time. As a result OUR system went down.When we fixed it on our side, our management excused about the downtime and made a proposal to our client to announce next time when they start with a massive load again. Since it wasn't really a massive load, our client didn't find that statement very funny and responded similar like the penguin in the cartoon.

Early Hotfixes

Where I work, hotfixes were things we dealt long before we started developing software. Their appearance was a little bit different, but they solved similar issues.

A beautiful exemplar of "ugly workarounds"  from the Sixties was presented to me just yesterday. I took a shot with my camera and I just couldn't resist posting it here...

Power Breakdown in Zurich

It can really be a hard day if you sit there and wait, and not even the coffee-maker is pluged to the emergency backup generator.