Is this going to be dot com bust all over again?

[minestrone]

I am 'looking after' an application for a place that takes 90 hits to the DB to form a page on the website. The developers do not think that is an issue but what do I know.

[eek]

I am 'looking after' an application for a place that takes 90 hits to the DB to form a page on the website. The developers do not think that is an issue but what do I know.

I dealt with someone who complained about that. He managed to remove 31 such calls by caching the data and proudly announced this achievement. It explained the strange panicky phone calls I was getting from the end users asking why they seemed to be changing user account every time they refreshed the page.

[Sysman]

I am 'looking after' an application for a place that takes 90 hits to the DB to form a page on the website. The developers do not think that is an issue but what do I know.

Back in the day. I came across stuff that did hundreds of indexed file accesses to output 20 or so lines to a dumb terminal.

They assumed the system would cache anything they read more than once.

Not when you only had about 4 MB of RAM on a multiuser system...

[d000hg]

On a technology stance the thing is quite amazing I must say, the association tables must be feckin huge. You must have balls of hardened steel running in a schema change on that stuff.

I was at an event where they were recruiting coders and they advertised it as being 'super-exciting... often you'll be releasing a change onto hundreds of millions of users immediately you finish working on it'. That didn't inspire a lot of confidence...

[AtW]

I was at an event where they were recruiting coders and they advertised it as being 'super-exciting... often you'll be releasing a change onto hundreds of millions of users immediately you finish working on it'. That didn't inspire a lot of confidence...

You'll also be coding in PHP