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I just confirmed that my provincial government - Saskatchewan - is still using a piece of software that a colleague and I at a long-out-of-business company obtained from another government (it was developed in-house there) and extensively customized for them... 25 years ago.

It's in use all over the "new" overall Government website. They've put some shiny new CSS on it when integrating it into other pages, but the source still shows what the backend is doing.

(a) this is funny, in a blast-from-the-past way.

(b) this is also an illustration that software, properly designed and implemented, doesn't need constant churn just to "keep up". It doesn't need to be rewritten from scratch every 3 years because the developers or management has CADT syndrome. It doesn't need to be "updated" to give it a new "framework" because ooh, shiny shiny. It doesn't need to be lifted and shifted to "the cloud". It doesn't need to be backed by Google or Amazon or Oracle or anyone else.

It's Perl, a database, and a webserver, on Linux. And it Just Works.

#software #engineering #design #implementation #SoftwareDevelopment #stability #StableSoftware #CADT #shiny #JustWorks #ItJustWorks #SoftwareThatWorks #Perl #database #webserver #TheCloud #TheClown

"It's absolutely ridiculous that we had all our business-critical systems running on AWS and had it go down, stopping us in our tracks. So I had IT move half our applications to another cloud provider."

"Uh, boss..."

#cloud #TheCloud #TheClown #clown #AWS #Amazon #Azure #Microsoft

Making Facon

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1168-d5fe-c266-369329102717

@ifixcoinops

As Leslie Lamport said in 1987 - and it applies perfectly today, to "the cloud" and current web design - "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

#cloud #TheCloud #TheClown #clown #fail #computer

Sunday afternoon & first record of 2023 is #CharlesMingus, #TheBlackSaintAndTheSinnerLady.

I’ve turned into something of a Mingus nut with this replacing #AhUm as my favourite of his studio albums (although #TheClown runs close). I just love the huge swell & surge of the horns - reminds me of an unhinged Bernard Herrmann score.

Cut by #RyanKSmith for the #AcousticSounds #Impulse series this is rich, bombastic, with mad dynamics.

#vinyl #VinylRecords #Jazz #NowPlaying #NowListening #Music