… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    I like working with legacy systems. Post something, go fart around on your phone for fifteen minutes while you wait for it to post.

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      I had to do some legacy app modernization for one of the largest telecoms companies in the US, and their mainframe system and the UI, while ugly, performed so much faster than the modern approach.

      Given, we weren’t the most talented team out there, but rendering the UI on the server side was unmatched in performance versus what we could get out of a web browser. I was the UI guy so I didn’t really touch mainframe side, but it was wild to me that they made this system like 30 years ago and it worked so much better than our modern implementation

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        I’m not sure whether I want to work with your team or not, considering all fifteen of those minutes farting I get to bill to the client

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          lol i was more or less just remarking on the fact that yes mainframe and other legacy apps are pretty old, however that does not mean that they’re necessarily worse than a modern implementation