Time Mansour - Chapter 50



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Episode 50 Just Because of That

“I was hoping. It just so happened to be a Chinese engineer···”

china.

A country with millions of concurrent users is ridiculous.

China is the place that starts to consider increasing the number of servers only when the number of concurrent users reaches tens of millions.

Engineers in those countries are having trouble optimizing performance.

‘Is it right for me to touch this?’

I have never seen or heard of this level of traffic in my life.

I’m having a hard time deciding on the size.

Before I knew it, the sound of typing on the keyboard had died down. As I continued to run simulations in my head, traffic became overloaded. The processing speed gradually slowed down.

After rolling the mouse wheel up and down for a while.

“This won’t work. This doesn’t seem right.”

I have made up my mind for sure.

okay.

To begin with, I’m not a data expert.

There’s a competitor product there that I’ve never seen before.

It was a similar but clearly different product.

To use an analogy, it’s like the difference between Word and Hangul.

The basic structure is similar to that of a similar product.

Still, there were some differences in detailed functions.

Problems that even experts cannot solve with unfamiliar products.

Even though I know it won’t be easy, I look at the monitor screen one more time.

Even though I decided not to do it, my eyes keep going to it.

Ugh.

I find myself licking my lips without realizing it.

The cost they proposed was a bit higher than I expected.

It wasn’t even consulting, and the amount was a bit high for a freelance engineer.

Well, it can’t be helped.

In the first place.

The performance issue could have been easily solved by increasing cloud capacity.

The problem is that you have to buy more licenses.

Because software licensing costs are calculated on a per-capacity basis, the additional licensing costs incurred each year during large-scale traffic bursts like this were enormous.

If you can solve it, it’s much cleaner and cheaper to just use one person, so you can ask for a large amount like this.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t regret it.

No matter how much I thought about it, it was just too much work. And even if I tried hard, I couldn’t guarantee that I would be able to solve the problem.

“Okay. What kind of wealth and honor do I expect to enjoy?”

As I mutter, I throw myself toward the bed. The flower-patterned leaves are crushed by my weight. I burrow into the blanket, seeking warmth.

I lie on my bed mattress crookedly, turn on the shorts video, and slide my finger across the screen. The video flows from bottom to top.

Like a broken faucet, it keeps flowing without any intention of stopping.

“That’s really funny. How can you think like that?”

While laughing out loud to myself like that, I also spoke to the 7-inch screen.

Because of the old algorithm, sometimes cloud lecture videos come out.

“You pass.”

Send it off without even thinking about it. Swipe the screen from the bottom up.

Swim in the overflowing content.

Deeply locked in, holding my breath, I keep flipping through the screens.

Just let yourself go with the flow and float around

Before I knew it, I had come to my senses.

Time had passed by so quickly before I knew it.

“···”

I watched the video without realizing how much time had passed.

No, strictly speaking, there wasn’t any time.

anyway.

“Ouch. It’s your shoulder.”

My shoulder was sore.

I was looking at my phone in an uncomfortable position for a long time, so it was understandable that it would hurt.

like that.

I got up and started stretching by twisting my body.

“Should I check it one more time?”

Without realizing it, my eyes are drawn to the monitor screen.

I sat down in my chair with the thought of doing one last check before contacting the customer to say I couldn’t do it.

I opened the manual and the log on one screen and looked at them alternately.

“In the log… when a certain section is reached, traffic suddenly spikes.”

It is normal for the graph to rise gradually.

But strangely, when you reach a certain section, traffic suddenly increases and the server goes down.

This is a symptom that I just can’t understand.

It was certainly not a common symptom.

however.

Why does something feel familiar?

I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere. I mutter as I continue to search my memory.

The thought comes to mind but doesn’t come to mind.

He tilted his head and scratched his cheek.

He squinted and stared at the monitor.

I stared at the screen as if I was looking at a magic eye.

Ah… no way.

I realized something and quickly looked for my phone.

-Hey. This might not be a data-side software problem. Just in case, ask the server management people to check it again. This symptom can sometimes occur when the line is not properly connected to the standby server.

I couldn’t guarantee that it was certain.

If I’m right, that’s a ridiculous mistake.

I sent the message while hesitating myself.

**

Winter lingers beside spring.

I can’t leave because I still have feelings for her, and I keep lingering around.

With his hands in his padded pockets, he tapped the intercom with his elbow.

The real housewarming party has arrived.

Tiring.

As the front door opens, Manager Cho pops his head out.

“Hello. Come in.”

“The director is here early too. Come in. Manager Chae is already here too.”

So I took off my shoes and followed Manager Cho and his wife inside.

From the living room, I hear Manager Chae’s playful voice. He gives me a thumbs up.

“Oh! A celebrity is here. A celebrity.”

I’m not sure what you mean, but it seems like you’re talking to me.

“Does your face look a bit like a child actor?”

He gave a strong affirmation.

Pointing at yourself with your finger.

Just with my words.

“···”

“···”

There is no answer from anyone.

Manager Cho and his wife, whom I was meeting for the first time today, looked at me with a bewildered expression.

‘I should have just answered, ‘Shall I just sign it?’

I spoke poorly and the atmosphere became awkward for no reason.

“Director? Director, I’ll be forty in two days. Forty.”

“Okay, but you don’t have to be so serious about it.”

This is really too much. I’m just pretending to be a little upset for no reason.

“But what about celebrities?”

“Director Jeong. He’s become a famous person.”

Manager Chae shrugged. I still didn’t quite understand what he was saying, so I asked again.

“Because you’re handsome?”

“No way. Developers. There’s no one who doesn’t know Director Jeong.”

Ah. That’s because of the library manual. Your face was also shown on YouTube.

Since there aren’t many famous developers from Korea, it seems like word of mouth spread quickly in the domestic community.

To be honest, I’ve been feeling it lately. I’ve been getting more and more technical support inquiries that are more difficult than before.

After that, we exchanged a few more pointless jokes.

I belatedly greeted Manager Cho’s wife.

While we were casually asking each other about our recent activities.

Ding dong.

The bell rings again. The screen on the intercom lights up.

“Huh? Is there anyone else coming?”

“No. No. Delivery.”

Manager Cho laughs as he gets up.

He went out for a while and then came back.

Before I knew it, food was on the table. Wow. I ordered a lot. Bossam, pig’s feet, sushi, salmon, pork cutlet… Those are the dishes I know. There were a lot of other things too.

I wondered if four people could eat all of this. I picked up the pig’s feet while pondering that with a full stomach.

“Manager. But when did the director come?”

“It’s been about a month. We had kids, so we had to move anyway. We just came a little early.”

The house is big and nice. I nodded and gave it a thumbs up.

Since we met at work, we naturally started talking about old company stories.

“Infrastructure guys still don’t work these days. It’s driving me crazy. Even though they have disabilities, they don’t know that they are disabilities.”

Somehow the conversation turned to the infrastructure team.

As Manager Cho was speaking, something just occurred to me, so I continued speaking.

“Ah. That’s right. The infrastructure team reminds me of that time. Do you remember that time? When you plugged in the server cable wrong.”

“How could I forget that? I thought they were crazy.”

“You said you plugged the wire in the wrong way? Isn’t it a real legend that you operated it like that? No, they must have checked it in the middle, but it’s really true that you didn’t know that the wire was plugged in the wrong way for two years…”

As Agent Chae said, it was a legend. Since I don’t have much understanding of server equipment, I’m not sure what the mistake was.

I heard that you had the two wires A and B connected to the server connected in the opposite directions.

It was operated as an internal bank system in that state, and was discovered while performing a performance check shortly before the application was opened.

“I almost wouldn’t have found it if it weren’t for Director Jeong.”

“That’s right. Director Jeong found it while he was messing around.”

“It’s not a joke. It’s an efficient way to get things done.”

At Manager Cho’s words, he shook his head with a serious expression.

At the time, there was some distrust within the bank about our platform products.

There are growing doubts about whether Pass can stably operate a first-class financial business.

I hated being looked at like that. To be exact, I hated the way it kept bothering me.

So, to show my confidence in stability, I prepared a performance.

In a performance check test where all executives gathered.

We’ve deliberately dumped in data that is almost at the level of a natural disaster, something that would never happen in our operating environment.

I was trying to show that our system can withstand this.

in result.

The server just went down···

“I still remember Director Jeong’s expression. That was the first time I saw you so flustered.”

“I seriously considered quitting. It shouldn’t have gone down in terms of calculations… No. Even if the server went down, it should have shown some signs and gradually slowed down. It just went down in an instant.”

Even though it was before opening to the customer environment, it was a system that was still in use internally.

They blatantly brought down the server in front of all the executives.

The ripple effect was truly indescribable.

At that time, many people suffered because of me. I lived with the words, “I’m truly sorry,” always on my lips.

After even the vice president came forward and asked to find the cause, it was eventually discovered that the line to the server was incorrectly connected.

I heard that the standby server was recognized but not working.

In that state, data that cannot be handled by the main server alone is coming in.

Because the standby server was not functioning properly, it went down in an instant.

An incident completely unrelated to the in-memory grid product that the Chinese people were inquiring about.

So it didn’t come to mind right away at first.

“But the Chinese kids made the same mistake.”

“··· You changed the line?”

“There are some kids who make that mistake.”

“That’s right. I was also surprised. I guess people are all similar in their lives.”

Well. Anyway, it was salty. I stuffed the well-seasoned bossam into my mouth.

“You changed one line and received a service fee?”

“Well. Honestly, I didn’t change anything. I just said something. Just said something.”

“Wow, that’s really cool.”

“It’s so great. It’s all the know-how I’ve acquired through hardship. Know-how.”

When I answered in an exaggerated tone, Manager Chae laughed. Manager Jo also nodded along with me.

“Hey. What about know-how? It was already chosen in the first place. It wasn’t even Director Jeong who discovered it.”

“That’s right. Come to think of it, Director Jeong just brought down the server.”

These guys are really. Then how am I supposed to solve the server problem? I get confused every time I plug in the computer cables.

Since it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you all, I find myself talking a lot.

Before we knew it, we were pointing fingers at each other like children.

Manager Cho’s wife stands up from her seat and looks at us.

“If everyone has finished eating, should I bring some cake?”

As a school nurse, you know how to deal with reckless kids.

This is my first time seeing him, so I don’t know what kind of person he is.

Still, the two of them looked really good together.

**

Wait for the bus at the stop.

I look up and see the screen displaying the driving information.

There was still some time left before I could get there. It was cold, so I went into the bank right next door.

Since I was just standing there, I checked my balance at the ATM.

“Wow. This is really something. I just told you that I plugged it in wrong…”

I wonder if this is right even though I’m checking it myself.

This is the IT business. If you’re lucky, you can find the cause in an hour, but sometimes you can’t find the cause even after staying up for days and nights.

Because of this, it was sometimes difficult to value ability.

There are cases where we contract with customers on an hourly basis, and in those cases, it is difficult to prove what was done during that time.

Because if you ask me why it took so long, I have nothing to say.

It may be different if you go to work, but there were many situations where it was even more difficult when providing remote support.

I thought that proving it would only make the report take longer, so in my case, I just went to work.

When I pressed the end button, the machine spat out a card. I took it out and stuffed it roughly into my pocket.

like that.

As usual, I put my hands in my pockets and pushed the door open with my body.

bang.

After bumping into the bank door once, he takes his hands out of his pockets again and pulls the door open.

Only then did the door open.