#post-id: 7416-17-17
#original-date: 14.11.2020 Sat
#original-time: 5:17 PM
#original-day: 7416
#original-host: WinXP Home SP3 (Build 2600)

A new defect tracking system was developed, named Product Studio, because naming your app Something Studio was fashionable at the time.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=103566

Рэймонд Чен рассказывает о том, как Microsoft изобрела багзиллу.

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Product Studio didn’t have a limit of 32,767 records. It used a three-tier architecture for improved reliability and flexibility. It supported file attachments!

Product Studio served as the primary bug-tracking database for many years. But even with its improved architecture, you often ran into cases where the app stopped responding and simply told you “There was an error contacting the middle tier.”

I liked to joke that we should just get rid of that middle tier. It’s always the one that’s causing problems.


В душе майкрософтера Рэймонда Чена всегда жил маленький линуксоид.