[underpants]

In a similar situation. In fact stupider. We have a 120Gb baseline of data inside a relational store. The vendor has a file stream option that allows blobs to be stored on disk instead of the transaction log and be pushed through the DB server rather than using our current CIFS DFS cluster. So lets stick our 950Gb static document load in there too (while i was on holiday typically) and off we go.

Do thing starts going like shit as expected now it has to stream all that through the DB bottleneck.

So what's the solution? Well we're in big data territory now apparently at 1.2TiB (comedically small data and almost entirely static data set) and have every vendor licking arse with the CEO and CTO to sell us Hadoop, more DB features and SAN kit.

We don't even need it for processing. Just a big CRUD system. Total Muppets.

[rhizome]

Resume-Driven Development

[jacquesm]

Being in charge of large budgets is better for CEOs and CTOs than being in charge of small budgets. It makes you look more impressive so they go for it like lemmings over the cliff, sometimes taking entire companies with them.

[devonkim]

No, it's called enterprise software, and it's driven by "appeal to the enormous egos and matching budgets of leaders of companies that are held back more by their own bloat than by anything resembling competition." This is just standard practice for the enterprise software sector in general, and after everyone's spent their billions and the next recession is upon us, they'll probably axe most of these utter failures to produce business value. But all the consultants will just blame someone other than the client being dysfunctional because that's just the fastest way to get kicked off a contract.

Consulting for enterprise customers tends to be a lot like marriages - you can be right, or you can be happy (or paid). It takes a unique customer to have gotten past their cultural dysfunctions to accept responsibilities for their problems and to take legitimate, serious action. But like marriage, there can be great, great upsides when everyone gets on the same page and works towards mutual goals with the spirit of selflessness and growth. Yeah....