So today was a major project at work that yours truly has been preparing for for the last couple of weeks. Major code rollout that could potentially lead to a disaster if not properly handled.

I coded, tested, recoded, tested some more. As of this morning, I was doing more testing, Just In Case. (I am not anal, shut up!) So I review every line, I feel good and confident, I’m ready to go.

Conference call with the vendor, tell them I’m ready. They are ready. Push new code live.

*sigh*

Vendor is not so ready. Thousands of error messages flooding my inbox as subscribers (as in they paid for this service and by god they want it now!) attempt to login and are unable to. More tweaking on the vendor’s side. And finally, what should have been a 30 second roll out, is done and running after a lovely 45 minute downtime.

I want a cigarette so bad. I am not giving into temptation though, I am determined. Damn you nicotine! Damn you all to hell!

Update: Vendor sucks. The new code is on some servers, but not all, so guess what happens whenever their load balancers direct traffic to the servers without the new code? Assholes!

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