Name: Anonymous 2016-12-18 1:51
The story of my life is being translated to English. Here is an excerpt:
https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/one-life-in-russia-eng.md
After a couple of interviews, I was accepted into the company "Devino Telecom", engaged in e-mail and SMS distribution, they had their own software solution, consisting of several services written in different languages, including C#, Java and PHP, with MSSQL used as major database, but there were also oracle, mysql, and various nosql key-value databases. My initial goal was to support technical support, troubleshooting, and fixing bugs in C# services. Then create a module for integration with third-party services. And finally translating "legacy" PHP service into C#. The task, I formally completed, but with large volumes of mailings old PHP service performance was superior to new C# one, due to factors such as shared-nothing architecture of PHP releasing all resources after sending the message block, the use of optimized libraries (including library for bzip2 compression), written in C/C++ (as for C# version I was told to use roughly sloppy hobbyists C# version of the library), as well as the use of PHP utf8 compact format to store strings, while C# applied utf16. Use in C# utf8 is impossible, because all the libraries, including the http generators, expect utf16. Worst of all was the automatic memory management, which did not knew anything about running several parallel service processes will use the same memory, and therefore sometimes giving all memory one service, while other services fell with out-of-memory errors, losing the message, and therefore the clients' money.
It was in 2014, around that time Russia went to war with Ukraine, and I fell into disgrace, after an attempt to convey to the fanatical devotee C# team that C# has weaknesses, and there are cases where a decision on the PHP language better cope with the task, and that PHP service deserves a chance at life, because it is unprofitable to translate in C#, just because of the fact that PHP seems someone ugly language.
https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/one-life-in-russia-eng.md
After a couple of interviews, I was accepted into the company "Devino Telecom", engaged in e-mail and SMS distribution, they had their own software solution, consisting of several services written in different languages, including C#, Java and PHP, with MSSQL used as major database, but there were also oracle, mysql, and various nosql key-value databases. My initial goal was to support technical support, troubleshooting, and fixing bugs in C# services. Then create a module for integration with third-party services. And finally translating "legacy" PHP service into C#. The task, I formally completed, but with large volumes of mailings old PHP service performance was superior to new C# one, due to factors such as shared-nothing architecture of PHP releasing all resources after sending the message block, the use of optimized libraries (including library for bzip2 compression), written in C/C++ (as for C# version I was told to use roughly sloppy hobbyists C# version of the library), as well as the use of PHP utf8 compact format to store strings, while C# applied utf16. Use in C# utf8 is impossible, because all the libraries, including the http generators, expect utf16. Worst of all was the automatic memory management, which did not knew anything about running several parallel service processes will use the same memory, and therefore sometimes giving all memory one service, while other services fell with out-of-memory errors, losing the message, and therefore the clients' money.
It was in 2014, around that time Russia went to war with Ukraine, and I fell into disgrace, after an attempt to convey to the fanatical devotee C# team that C# has weaknesses, and there are cases where a decision on the PHP language better cope with the task, and that PHP service deserves a chance at life, because it is unprofitable to translate in C#, just because of the fact that PHP seems someone ugly language.