Time Mansour - Chapter 88
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Episode 88 Blushing
By the time you get used to the muscle pain.
Autumn has arrived suddenly.
The maple leaves blush shyly.
They say no news is good news.
Autumn has come, so forgettable.
With him.
-Youngjun. Are you busy these days?”
The intruder also popped his head out.
A message from the representative.
After confirming, I shook my head without realizing it.
-Yes. It’s nothing much. But what’s wrong?
-I have something to tell you. Do you have time?
-Yes, everything is fine.
-By any chance… will you be okay today?
The moment you check the message.
I tilted my head and looked at the calendar.
-Sir? Today is Sunday?
-Ah. I’m sorry. It’s the weekend. I guess it must be difficult.
-No, I don’t mind, but I don’t have any employees. I think I need to talk to the staff.
-Ah. Don’t worry about that. All the relevant personnel have arrived at work now.
“···”
This must be really urgent.
Make everyone go to work on Sunday.
I sigh without realizing it.
I need some time to think, so I go to my sister’s room.
I closed the door and sat down on the chair. My image was reflected on the turned off monitor screen.
‘Just close your eyes and say you can’t do it.’
My eyes met with the black and white me. The me on the monitor smiled.
This is a task that needs to be resolved through dialogue. Technically, there was nothing I could do.
But, I felt a bit awkward refusing from the beginning after confidently telling the representative that I would help him.
Me and the person on the other side of the monitor are putting our heads together and thinking about it.
After staring blankly for a while, I made up my mind and got up from my seat.
Yeah. Let’s just go and have a chat. If it’s really a physical equipment issue, there’s nothing I can do anyway. I have no choice but to be honest and say no.
So I made up my mind and put on my socks.
**
The server room doesn’t get any sunlight.
so.
All the staff were withered.
A space reminiscent of a spaceship ground control tower.
There are no windows in this huge, wide space.
The server operations room looks really cool.
To be honest, it’s not a good working environment.
Because of security reasons, we can’t install windows.
Naturally.
There was no ventilation at all.
“Cough, cough.”
The air was so thick that even I, a dull person, could feel it.
Following the sound of the employee’s cough, we go further inside.
I started to follow the staff member who was guiding me like that.
moment.
Representative Lee’s voice was heard from the front.
“It’s been two months now! So, can we trust you, Manager Jang? Can’t we?”
Frown and get angry.
The employee in front had his head bowed and was unable to say anything.
“Oh my. This is scary. What kind of company CEO would come all the way to the operations office and do something like that?”
It’s Sunday work. The mood is not good. My mouth is as dry as a dying plant.
I walked slowly towards the representative with a nervous expression.
When we almost got there.
The representative turned his head and looked at me.
“Youngjun. You’re here. Seriously… I’m sorry about the weekend.”
The person’s voice changed. He greeted me as if he were a different person than before.
“Yes. I hope you’ve been well too, sir.”
“As you can see, things are not going well. I don’t know what the problem is, but the project has been dragging on since the beginning.”
Then, the representative touches his forehead.
“Ah. Right. Manager Jang here. Say hello to each other. This is Jeong Yeong-jun. You know him, right?”
“Ah. I’ve heard this person say that a lot.”
Manager Jang’s eyes sparkle as he looks at me.
He looks at me with eyes full of anticipation.
With such burdensome eyes.
I was briefly contemplating whether I should just go back now.
“Anyway, since Youngjun is here, I’ll be going now. Please take good care of him. And Manager Jang too. I worked hard to bring him here. Please explain it to me clearly.”
The representative leaves first.
no.
What if you go first?
Cloud team. Server team.
Both departments worked over the weekend.
Of course, the atmosphere couldn’t have been good right now.
If the representative were present, it might at least be restrained.
Now I had to handle it all by myself.
After observing the situation like that, I cautiously spoke to Manager Jang.
“Can you tell me what the problem is right now?”
“The symptoms appear in the cloud because there is too much data.”
“···”
As soon as I saw it, I passed the problem on to the cloud team.
That person is a server team member.
I felt like I knew you even without you introducing yourself.
While we were exchanging a few more words like that.
From across the street, I could see Manager Chae.
‘uh?’
To show that he knows, he raises his hand and then slowly puts it back down.
Their expressions were not good at all. It wasn’t just Manager Chae that was like that. Everyone just looked depressed.
While I was thinking about whether or not I should say hello.
“Huh? Director Jeong? You came today?”
Agent Chae does what he knows first.
“Yes, that’s what happened.”
“You’re having a hard time this weekend, Director. Well, I’ll go for now. I’m starting a load test right now. Please take a look with me.”
I nodded to Manager Chae’s words and followed him.
Maybe it’s because there’s no ventilation.
Or maybe it’s because of the atmosphere.
It’s unusually difficult to breathe.
**
Load testing has begun.
A task of checking how well a system can endure by shooting a large amount of data using performance testing equipment.
It has to withstand tens of thousands of traffic per second. As expected, the server can’t handle it and crashes at certain points.
“As you can see, it’s not a cloud problem.”
“Isn’t this a symptom of low server performance?”
Opinion from the cloud team with Team Leader Chae.
however.
The server operations team thought differently.
“You said Youngjun. Think about it. We replaced all the servers because we were doing a big project. We? Right? Would we have brought in equipment with low specs?”
“That’s why. The data that the cloud company initially sent and the data that you actually receive are different. No matter how you look at it, it’s not operating properly.”
Opinions were divided on both sides.
That’s right.
Now that I hear it, it sounds plausible.
A large project for the company.
I changed the whole server for that.
Unless they’re crazy.
You wouldn’t have bought equipment with poor specifications.
And even if they did it because they were crazy.
‘I don’t know either.’
There was no way to check anyway.
I’m blind to the server.
Even looking at the spec sheet, there was no way to know if it was suitable or not.
‘I don’t know much about CPU clock, co-lock, or anything like that.’
I just think that it would be good if the number was high, and it would be bad if it was low.
I was even more ignorant than the average person who likes computers.
That’s why the cloud team with Team Leader Chae can’t make a strong appeal.
Since they didn’t know much about each other’s work, they could only say that it wasn’t their problem.
like that.
I took turns listening to both sides’ opinions.
‘I don’t know any more.’
I had no idea at all.
I didn’t have any particular ideas either.
however.
After the performance test, the employees only look at me.
Because I have nothing else to say.
I decided to just give it a try and do what I do best.
“Excuse me. Is there a spot where I can use the computer? I’d like to do a little tuning first.”
I put my hand on the mouse. Sometimes, simple tuning can catch traffic.
I really hope this problem can be solved easily. I prayed that earnestly in my heart.
What I do best.
After a long time, I started prayer coding.
**
Unfortunately.
As a result, prayer coding failed.
The earnestness did not reach the heavens.
I tuned the program to reduce traffic, but I still didn’t get the results I wanted. The load was lower, but not significantly.
‘What the hell is the problem?’
This can’t be solved with simple tuning. Even a better developer would be able to do it.
‘I don’t know about anything else, but I specialize in repairs.’
I’ve worked with a lot of really crappy software. I’ve even tried to run products that were at the level of college projects for actual commercial use.
I even maintained such shoddy software that you wonder if you can sell it for money.
Anyway, tuning won’t work.
That means.
It means there is nothing more I can do.
A situation where no matter how much you rack your brain, you can’t come up with an answer.
To make matters worse, the quitting time was approaching.
“Isn’t there any other way?”
“Would it be possible to replace the server with a high-performance CPU?”
While answering, I glanced at Manager Jang.
“You can think of it as impossible. You can’t have equipment with those specs. Even on Chinese Singles’ Day, you probably won’t get this much data.”
Manager Jang answers each word with emphasis.
Well, I agree with that to some extent.
I took a quick look while tuning, and the traffic spiked more than I expected.
Honestly, I’m not sure if I can afford to buy a new server.
“Then, I think it might be possible to forcibly lower the software performance.”
As he said that, he glanced at the Cloud Team Leader this time.
“If we remove any more options here, there is no point in using Kubernetes.”
“That’s right. In that case, there’s no reason to do the project.”
Even Manager Chae gets excited when he sees me.
Everyone is sensitive.
So why are you making me work on weekends?
‘Oh my.’
The idea of coming out doesn’t come to mind.
All I can do is sigh loudly.
Is it because the server room doesn’t get any sunlight?
My eyes went dark.
**
As time goes by without any harvest.
There’s no choice.
I made the best choice I could right now.
“Okay. Okay. I don’t think there’s any point in doing more here. Let’s stop here for today. I’ll go home and look at the graph again to find the cause.”
Forced me to leave work.
Although I am not a superior.
Because in any case, everyone was looking at me.
The employees were packing their bags while keeping an eye on what I said.
So I return home without any harvest.
I got on the shaking subway.
Are you tired today?
The agent sitting next to me didn’t say anything either.
“Oh. Right. Mr. Chae? How long is the equipment rental period?”
“Next Friday. Well. So everyone came out over the weekend.”
Manager Chae shrugs.
Well, this is the same for every company.
It gets urgent when you shut up.
An unresolved problem that has been dragging on for two months.
It looks like they’re going all out over the weekend, as they’re running out of gear right now.
“But you don’t know how to solve it at all?”
“I don’t even know the cause, let alone the solution. There’s no reason for the data to suddenly increase, right? I think I need to know that first…”
Something suddenly occurred to me as I was talking.
“That’s right, Manager Chae. What about the chart? Did you look it up?”
I turned my head and looked at Manager Chae.
“Of course. Seriously. If I had looked at the stock charts like that, I probably would have made a lot of money.”
Manager Chae shook his head as he joked.
“Have you checked everything?”
“What is the scope of what the director is talking about?”
“Everything. From the beginning to the end of the test.”
“··· Of course, I didn’t look at everything. I just checked the popping parts. I couldn’t find anything particularly abnormal.”
So you’re saying you didn’t search everything?
Well, it wasn’t something that could be done by human power.
This is especially true for ordinary salaried workers.
Because it is a tedious task that takes a lot of time.
‘What? What can I do? I’ll grab onto even a shred of hope.’
I should buy some more ramen on my way back.
I closed my eyes with that thought.
My eyes literally went dark.
**
After I started exercising.
I lived a somewhat regular life.
But today that pattern is about to break.
Return home and start fighting the charts.
I looked at the graph that recorded the test process in seconds.
Before I knew it, the number of ramen packets on my desk was increasing one by one.
It’s not a task that requires great know-how.
It was just a simple repetitive task that wasted time.
But for me, it is my last hope.
If you can’t find the problem here, there’s no way to really know.
Thinking like that.
I stared blankly at the monitor for a long time.
“Huh? Wait a minute.”
A strange pattern caught my eye.
The chart looks a little weird. Put your face close to the monitor.
I squint my eyes and look at the graph.
Just before the graph goes up.
There was a section where they all slightly bent downwards.
no way.
Traffic goes down for a while and then bounces back up.
There were some differences between the charts tested.
They showed almost similar symptoms.
“I think this might be a bottleneck?”
Data doesn’t just pile up all at once for no reason.
It seemed like it wasn’t receiving the data it was supposed to receive earlier, so it was overloaded afterwards.
It was blocked once as data came in from the front section.
And then as time passed, traffic came rushing in all at once, like a dam bursting.
If this happens···
“You’re saying that neither the server nor the cloud is the problem.”
The app or network was sending data irregularly.
Ultimately, it was likely a problem with the development team or the network team.
Just looking at the chart, it wasn’t clear which of the two was the problem.
‘Wow… There’s going to be another war.’
I’m glad I found the cause.
On the other hand.
I was debating whether I should say this or not.