Software Horror Stories | The Standup

My horror story: I used a third party DLL and it spawned a thread that repeatedly changed the settings of the floating point unit and this wasn't documented. And no, FPU settings aren't thread local. A week of debugging of seemingly random behavior until I even knew what was happening.

My horror story (also in healthcare): I was doing some testing on a data visualization application (in the testing environment, I'm not dumb enough to do this in production), but I needed some more data. My idea: write a MySQL script to randomize the dates of appointments/referrals in the system so they fit within the last 7 days. The script worked perfectly on the first try, checked the data in the database, AWESOME. Refresh the browser in the test environment, no change. Refresh again, no change. Go back to the db tool, and yep, I ran the query on the production connection. Lucky for us, we had the created/updated dates duplicated in a shared/reference table, so I was able to scramble and restore the data before anyone noticed. But yeah, nearly pooped my pants.

Should have invited me. I worked at an ecom company that had a myspace+facebook app, and, private email servers. An idiot at the company was tasked with "reviewing servers to find unused servers, consolidate resources, and save money by removing servers.". He didn't check the server at all, and sold it back to our hosting provider. The myspace+facebook app, and our private email server was on that box. All email went down, all myspace+facebook went down. Could we get them back? No. No backups were setup. Could we get the server back? No. The hosting company wiped it and sold it already. I hate this guy.

Can't believe Trash Dev took down Google, Instagram, AWS, Sony, & contributed to every other major outage in the past 5 years!

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Ex Cerner guy here.. hilarious to hear Epic was going through all the same things we were and a completely proprietary language to boot. Healthcare IT is something else

This Epic story is my life. My grandfather worked for the enterprise that made Mumps and I now have his job haha. It was eventually called Caché and is now Inter systems - Iris.

I'm now just as concerned about my hospital's data infrastructure as I am my bank's. Thanks, TJ!

Epic’s release pipeline is like an old school Nintendo game. You could potentially lose at a later level and be kicked right back to the beginning. 😂

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