The Lindenbergs

Last Saturday was a work day, but for good reasons. Our customer has to shut down their production environment every quarter to allow new programs and modules to be loaded to it without impacting online users. This quiet time lasts for about 5 hours and is non-negotiable. Our team showed up at the office at about 11:30 am and started laying the ground work for all quiet time activities with the actual “green flag” moment starting at 1:00 pm.

For the first hour, our 3-hour Migration-To-Production plan (MTP) was about 40 minutes ahead of schedule. Then we hit snag number 1 and burned an hour –but that’s ok we had a two-hour buffer, right? The net result of the day’s activities was a last minute “hail-Mary” that worked and got our code within the quiet time.

The room we were in was very small, crowded and hot. The cans are of a coffee drink called "Fire".


Literally at the last minute we hit a glitch. It took us 7 hours and 12 minutes to finish the migration. Everyone is watching the very last piece register as valid.

-Eric (Dad)