Writing this Monday night and the news from the Boston Marathon is horrible. Our client team in the US has friends who run it. Nothing about software feels important today, so this one’s short. Hug your people.
The fortnight before today, for the record: Facebook announced “Home,” a launcher that takes over your whole Android phone, and even the Facebook fans at work are confused by it. Bitcoin went full rollercoaster, spiking over $260 and then crashing by half in a day when the big exchange (Mt. Gox) buckled under load. Again: capacity planning. It’s always capacity planning.
Adam Scott won the Masters in a playoff yesterday, the first Australian ever to win it, and our one lead engineer bought the whole office briyani for his celebrations of H1B.
TIL: we practiced restoring our database backup for the first time since I joined. It took four hours and one backup was silently broken. My tech lead said “a backup you haven’t restored is a rumor.” I’m stealing that phrase forever.