RedAsh's Blog

After so long, not that long, (ok its been long), CIRIS is finally on track. Things are calm and everything seems to be in control. All looking good and are working fine... except the LONG processing time...

Its time to do a little check and report on the stuff learnt overall...

I see how a HUGE (island wide) project is being implemented and rolled out (executed). Other than intensive testing and patching, for a period, the developers (NEC, SCS and NCS) are on standby around the clock and have shifted to the client site for full-force FAQ sessions. Problems and issues are logged into cases, and each case are documented as a physical file and the files are then data entry into the soft copies.

The users coping (or struggling) with the problems and new features are relieved with the development team there to "absorb" their anger and complaints... LOL.

I also happened to learn that the Apache POI is used to develop MS Office Apps, and the software is written by some third party developer. The servers are also set up in a cluster format (was told that there are 8 of them) and the lagginess of the servers are caused by the intercommunication of the servers, other then the Client/Server replies and responses... And the servers seggregation allows the problem to be identified easier.