First Week of Crush Down – Not Looking Very Promising
Well... the first week of the four week "delivery cycle" of the new Greek Engine has come and gone, and I have to say, if we get done with it in the next three weeks, I'll be surprised. Maybe not off by much, but there's so much to do, and with two new guys on the team, one very junior, it's a lot of work on my part just to keep them for imploding.
On the other hand, I have to say that things are coming together. They are taking shape in the code, and things are getting written - just not fast enough, and the hardware was always going to be an issue. There's just not enough time to get all the hardware purchased, installed, built and running. It'll be close, if they hurry, but I've already found out that I'm going to be delayed at least a week on some hardware coming from another data center. Doesn't sound like much, but that's 25% slippage.
But progress has been made. We have better integration between the two projects - my ticker plant and the greek engine, and we at least know the sections of code we need to build in order to make this thing work. That's a big help. It's just a matter of time.