Ok, so this is the part where you remain calm, or at least attempt to stay calm. It's been a tough week so far and I gained respect for troubleshooting system administrators. It's been a while now that we want to run our environment in a cluster setup. That is GlassFish clustering with added loadbalancing. Easy right? Wrong!
Since I started helping out one of my colleagues, Thrishan, everything seemed to be difficult again, from the start. For some reason they make it look or sound so easy but when push comes to shove it is totally something different. Three days have passed and I have not made "real" progress with regards to one component on the clustered instance. Somewhere the session just get lost and results in the application not functioning as it should.
This is critical however, because all of the upcoming systems will use the same High-Availability concepts and it is something to sort out as soon as possible so we don't have problems later on. Excitement draws closer, but curiosity killed the cat.
It's just awesome to realise what privilege one has to start at a company like Thumbtribe. I can't imagine where we will be a year from now because there is so many variables that can't be controlled, but at the same time it moves forward at neck-break speeds.
Next week will be my first period on support and I am quite excited about it. Nervous but excited! I have no idea what it will be like, but I can't really say that it's something major. It's just the next step (of which there is many more to come). For a while now we wanted an HTC phone running Android for support. Last night I was handed an HTC TyTN II to attempt the art of running Android alongside Windows Mobile...
I had a couple of runs, but no success yet, it kept me in a Linux terminal but hopefully it will now be fixed. I just need to try again now... booting... Android screen...
Looks cool so far :)
Bummer, it works, but have to check with my SIM card first. I think I read in the notes something about the PIN that needs to be disabled.
Apart from that, it looks good. I will see on the next try just now. But for feedback you will have to wait until my next chance to blog :) Cheerio!
