Erik Gern

Writer, web developer, and professional goofball

May 2014

Last but not Least

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Casa de Quixote is a small, state-run retirement community in La Mancha, in central Spain. Sergio is the sole developer of software managing hundreds of residents. Missing documentation, he tracks down his predecessors for help.

"Just one left."


The In-House Developer

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Casa de Quixote is a small, state-run retirement community in La Mancha, in central Spain. Sergio is the sole developer of software managing hundreds of residents. Missing documentation, he tracks down his predecessors for help.

Miguel, manager of Casa de Quixote, told Sergio he'd find Luis at a dive in Toledo. "Just follow the empty glasses of beer," he said. Sergio did, and they led to a man: about two hundred pounds overweight, asleep at the bar, wearing a Real Madrid shirt.


The Professionals

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Casa de Quixote is a small, state-run retirement community in La Mancha, in central Spain. Sergio begins his new job as the sole developer of software managing hundreds of residents.

"Here is your office," said Miguel, the community manager of Casa de Quixote. He showed Sergio inside. The office was as barren as a prison cell: there was nothing in the room save a desk, a computer, and a wooden chair.


Modern Memory Management

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Evan was in charge of overseeing the integration of Hydra Hosting's seventh and newest acquisition, Calamari. Evan had overseen the last six mergers, and he knew that whether you were integrating with a distant datacenter or moving physical servers into your growing facility, things never went smoothly.

But when Hydra's main datacenter linked up Calamari's, it wasn't just bad. It was catastrophic.