| I'd tell you to get in touch with an Senior Architect but that's no guarantee that you'll get a good result. From my experience . . . IBM sold a big outsourcing package to a major European insurance company: they would move ALL their stuff to the IBM Cloud (VMWare with a lot of custom BPM workflows to handle provisioning, etc.). None of this matched their other three big cloud projects, Bluemix, Softlayer, or their OpenStack project (Zenith -- my prior project), so it was all new from the ground up. They needed to handle mass imports of DNS data from this insurance company (~1 million hosts) and other customers and they brought me in as a senior developer to do the grunt work. Since we were using ISC bind, I assumed we could use features like exporting zones with signed requests and take advantage of all the infrastructure work put into that server to scale up. Our Senior Architect poo-pooed that plan, so I started modeling the DNS records as structured data for consistent and complete import and export. Our senior architect also nixed that idea and said that we're gonna load the DNS structures with REST requests: the support people were gonna have a custom web application to load simple DNS export files (not zonefiles, mind you) into this system, and to make ad-hoc additions and changes. (When we had a new developer join, he had the same questions I had about why we weren't using all the DNS bind features since they were done and tested and perfect for our needs . . . it took a month to get him to stop asking.) I got about 90% of the way through a solution with a Python Flask REST server at the center, high code coverage through unit tests (because it's Python and I was still finding edge cases that needed fixing to the very end), and Rabbit MQ for enqueuing the changes we've received before writing them out to DNS zone files. It works, but we certainly didn't need to blow April to August building out the architect's vision. The reward I got was being pulled off the project when it was nearly code complete and would shortly go into production. I got a team based in India to manage in the mornings, while my afternoons and evenings were returned to developing Javascript for the BPM infrastructure jobs. (When told I was going to leave for another company, IBM's counter-offer was to move me from my remote work-at-home location in Ohio, near family, to the Cloud Managed Services office in Rochester, MN, and then consider a raise.) |