J. Clarke
2020-05-12 03:25:15 UTC
The mainframe guys at work want us to break up a job into multiple
pieces because of the "huge datasets". I can fit every dataset that
this job uses or produces in RAM on my crappy laptop, simultaneously.
I can even fit multiple copies of all of that in RAM on my crappy
laptop. I know bloody well that the mainframe will handle it all.
What bothers me is that the people running it seem to be stuck in the
'60s or something--they don't seem to understand how effing _huge_ the
machine they run has become (it's a current generation Z--actually 3
of them)
ARRRGHHHH.
Sorry, just needed to vent.
pieces because of the "huge datasets". I can fit every dataset that
this job uses or produces in RAM on my crappy laptop, simultaneously.
I can even fit multiple copies of all of that in RAM on my crappy
laptop. I know bloody well that the mainframe will handle it all.
What bothers me is that the people running it seem to be stuck in the
'60s or something--they don't seem to understand how effing _huge_ the
machine they run has become (it's a current generation Z--actually 3
of them)
ARRRGHHHH.
Sorry, just needed to vent.