Make excuses much?
I work in software, don’t give me its the “open source’s/vendors” fault. They chose to use it, and if it had never been used at this scale that should have been noted and part of the evaluation.
You can’t escape incompetence on this, trying to pass the buck is just proving my point. The folks who have been hired to do this are incompetent.
You are going to use a product, any product, commercial or open source, you should be doing an evaluation of its fit for purpose, before you choose it. If they chose a product that couldn’t scale, that’s on the folks who made the decision to use it not doing their due diligence. Or in other words... INCOMPETENCE.
If you know you are going to need to serve a million users, and the vendor/open source product has never been implemented on that scale, that comes out right away, that you will very likely need to rewrite/fix it before a single user is on it. Load Testing can verify at what point the software as it exists blows up... It’s called finding the knee if you wish to use parlance.
None of this clearly was done... you don’t go LIVE and then find out this stuff, at least not if you are a pro.. the excuses you are giving are proving my point, not yours.. the folks hired to execute this are incompetent and out of their depth.
The decision makers had no idea what they are doing (almost certainly) and most likely refused to listen to the engineers who warned them about it as well.
The thing is a good manager doesn’t have to know in precise detail every single thing of what is going on but he must have good people under him, assign tasks and have status meetings and keep track of what is happening. This is where TS has gone astray, Nunes didn’t have to know the business as long as he put the right people in the right places and when something didn’t work out make the responsible changes.
You are right for something with the kind of visibility and scope of this project it is impossible to believe that capacity wasn’t discussed in fine detail at the very beginning of the project. It’s like there is no plan, no path to final victory. Kids are running things. So sad.
Mr. Angry Complainy Guy. Not making excuses much.. but rather dealing with realities that are beyond you apparently.
Step up or let it go.
This is Trump we are talking about. Great policy guy, Great speech guy, Hiring.. sucks.