{"id":14,"date":"2007-09-28T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/28\/life-of-a-software-architect-episode-1\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:02:58","slug":"life-of-a-software-architect-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/28\/life-of-a-software-architect-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Life of a Software Architect&#8221; &#8211; Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What do you mean it&#8217;s &#8216;Dead&#8217;?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well&#8230;. When you push the big red button, the flashy-light-thingies on the front, don&#8217;t&#8230; well&#8230;. flash&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very funny. Seriously though&#8230;. what is wrong with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where do I begin?&#8230; You remember when we talked about adding all those drives and RAID controllers to back up the server every night?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vaguely&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well the controller died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK. Well that shouldn&#8217;t be a problem, it was &#8216;RAID&#8217; after all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah&#8230; now there&#8217;s the crux of the issue. If we had stayed with the cheapo SATA drives, life would be fine. Unfortunately these all-singing-all-dancing RAID cards tend to kill the drives as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my god. You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not where it ends&#8230; When the controller died, it took out the USB ports as well. So the extra backups we had also died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we do have them in a fire-safe somewhere don&#8217;t we???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Er&#8230;. did you write a policy on that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great. Just f***ing great. Now I&#8217;m going to have to download all that porn&#8230; er I mean&#8230; financial information again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What do you mean it&#8217;s &#8216;Dead&#8217;?!&#8221; &#8220;Well&#8230;. When you push the big red button, the flashy-light-thingies on the front, don&#8217;t&#8230; well&#8230;. flash&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Very funny. Seriously though&#8230;. what is wrong with it?&#8221; &#8220;Where do I begin?&#8230; You remember when we talked about adding all those drives and RAID controllers to back up the server every night?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}