Since it's up and down, intermittently, I'm guessing that it might be a load balancer or network switch problem. Worst case would be a DNS issues.
Don't want this to get too out of hand: http://blog.joemoreno.com/2011/06/yesterdays-post-on-quantum...
edw, you raise a good point. Keep in mind that Apple has hundreds of development teams. Each one is different. I don't think I disclosed any secrets and I was very careful to not say anything that might embarrass Apple.…
Yup, we turn off the online Apple store during the Steve Jobs keynote. Next time he speaks, check out store.apple.com and you'll see the yellow "We'll be back soon" sticky. If my memory serves, it's been like that for…
Yup, I have to agree with you that I was very happy to work on a team with professional standards. While commonplace at high tech organizations, there are many non-tech organizations with their own tech teams which…
Sorry about my typo. I really meant binary trees, not b-trees.
In my experience, large high tech organizations have many environments such as dev, build, QA, staging, demo, live, etc. The really good organization, with the smart engineers, have built this environments over the span…
I have to second BrandomM's comments. Don't make a complete copy of your live database to use in dev. Sensitive data needs to be scrubbed, ideally by a bona fide DBA, before bringing it over. Best to avoid this if at…
You raise a great point that I wished I had clarified. I worked on the product side of the store, not, say order fulfillment, order integration, etc. Multiple databases made up the live environment. The developers did…
Since it's up and down, intermittently, I'm guessing that it might be a load balancer or network switch problem. Worst case would be a DNS issues.
Don't want this to get too out of hand: http://blog.joemoreno.com/2011/06/yesterdays-post-on-quantum...
edw, you raise a good point. Keep in mind that Apple has hundreds of development teams. Each one is different. I don't think I disclosed any secrets and I was very careful to not say anything that might embarrass Apple.…
Yup, we turn off the online Apple store during the Steve Jobs keynote. Next time he speaks, check out store.apple.com and you'll see the yellow "We'll be back soon" sticky. If my memory serves, it's been like that for…
Yup, I have to agree with you that I was very happy to work on a team with professional standards. While commonplace at high tech organizations, there are many non-tech organizations with their own tech teams which…
Sorry about my typo. I really meant binary trees, not b-trees.
In my experience, large high tech organizations have many environments such as dev, build, QA, staging, demo, live, etc. The really good organization, with the smart engineers, have built this environments over the span…
I have to second BrandomM's comments. Don't make a complete copy of your live database to use in dev. Sensitive data needs to be scrubbed, ideally by a bona fide DBA, before bringing it over. Best to avoid this if at…
You raise a great point that I wished I had clarified. I worked on the product side of the store, not, say order fulfillment, order integration, etc. Multiple databases made up the live environment. The developers did…