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Are your applications well managed? Many companies get it right for part of an application’s lifecycle but few excel at all of it. Putting an application into a private cloud can help you to manage it more consistently from cradle to grave. Software applications need different resources at four main stages: development, …

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  1. sgtrock
    WTF?

    What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

    I just took a quick look at his story list here at the Reg. He's done nothing but talk about the cloud since March. There are other aspects to technology, you know. :-)

    1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
      Happy

      Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

      Didn't you know it is called a 'Bandwagon'?

      IMHO, this obsession with 'always being connected' is a passing fad. Not everywhere on this planet or even this country or even 500yds down the road from where I'm typing this can be connected to the internet.

      When we have that connectivity PLUS the bandwidth to make it happen then I might just be interested.

      But hey, someone has to be first to crash and burn. Can we hope that is Danny?

      1. Anonymous Dutch Coward
        Holmes

        Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

        You do know that this "private cloud" thing means the only connectivity is inside your premises as it's basically marketing speak for a virtual environment with dynamic provisioning/load management?

        1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
          Coat

          Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

          A good point about the private cloud. But how long until some PHB decides that connecting via a VPN from his Castle in the Country is also going to use the private cloud?

          That IMHO is not a lot of difference from using Amazon EC2 or a similar service.

          The prospects of a huge loss of data is frankly frightening. It is inevitable that sooner or later a large company will be forced into bankruptcy simply by someone deprovisioning the wrong cloud server and wiping the companies account and tax records in one go. Then they will find that their backups are useless.

          Mines the one with a 'get out of jail free' card in the pocket.

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Coat

          Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

          I've got a private cloud. One other than the one that collects about the kettle.

          It's runs through a "think client" I like to call my display, and sits under my desk in a "PC case". ;)

          1. Anonymous Coward
            FAIL

            Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

            Should be "thin client". Slip of the proverbial there.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: What's with the obsessive focus on clouds from Danny?

      Sell the "cloud."

      Sell Virtualisation.

      Register obsessions, I'm afraid.

  2. heyrick Silver badge

    Out of clouds rain does fall.

    Clouds are great... for sharing videos of kittens, ripped DVDs, blah-de-blah.

    When it comes to business, any tech with an ounce of integrity will want to know: where the data is, where the backups are, how often the backups are made (and if there was a failure), in what jurisdiction the data is held (admittedly, lower on the priorities for a geek but ought to be a consideration for management) and most importantly who has access to the data (when, and why). The cloud can only pretend to answer those questions...

  3. VV
    Meh

    Sorry for the silly question... but

    Why is it that cloud evangelists never tell us about folks who have lost data or had downtime in the cloud?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The real way to guarantee a long life for your program

    Write it in badly structured (preferably slightly non-standard) COBOL or FORTRAN (preferably 77 or earlier, none of the new-fangled 90 stuff).

    It might not be pleasant, but you can be sure such code will live on long past its sell by date, whether you want it to or not. Especially if the original developement team have all left the company.

    1. Ken Hagan Gold badge

      Re: The real way to guarantee a long life for your program

      Nice troll, but...

      Note for younger programmers: Correlation is not causation.

      *If* a program has a long life, it will eventually outlive the careers of those who first wrote it, it will originally have been written in a language that is not now fashionable, and it will have been continuously modified to meet evolving requirements. By the time *you* review the code, it will be spaghettified crap in an arcane language with no written spec, let alone documentation. However, this is not "best practice for new projects".

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Nurishment!

    You treat it as if it were a baby.

    So give the program plenty of rest (don't use it, its resting!), feed it with juicy updates; who cares if the updates do nothing as long as the program is happy, provide your software with a safe environment to play in; so make plenty of backups.

    And the most important tip of them all: give it a cute name so that others will grow a liking to it too!

    When you follow these simple guidelines then success is guaranteed. Don't trouble yourself with old fashioned stuff such as user friendliness, usability or paying attention to what your user base (if any *lol*) tell you. You don't need them!

    (hey, stop making fun of me... You know, even Microsoft believes in me! Crap, that was suppose to be a secret...).

  6. P. Lee
    Holmes

    How to give your applications a long and happy life

    Make sure it does what it needs to do and does it well

    When it is no longer needed, it will be discarded. That is the right thing.

  7. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

    Does Danny submit stories by telegraph?

    PLEASE NOTE COLON PARAGRAPHS IN ENGLISH ARE ALLOWED MORE THAN TWO SENTENCES STOP

    Honestly, reading this piece was like following a (rather uninteresting[1]) tweet stream, with a gasp of vertical whitespace after every sentence or two. It's not as bad as writing without paragraphs, or with ones that stretch on for pages (I'm looking at you, Henry James), but it's still damned annoying. Try developing an idea for a bit - that's my advice.

    [1] In other words, typical.

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