34 Commits of Chaos: DayTrader, AIX, and Knowing When to Pivot
Previously, on “Man Yells at POWER8” In Part 1, I told you about the time I decided to run AIX 7.2 inside a KVM VM on a Gentoo ppc64le host, on actual IBM POWER8 hardware, in my basement in Chicago. I monkey-patched Python 2.7’s sqlitecachec.py to make yum work. I nuked my entire system by installing OpenSSL 3.5 instead of 3.0. I got WebSphere Liberty running and deployed IBM’s DayTrader 7 — a Java EE benchmark app from 2005 that speaks EJBs, JPA, JMS, and looks like it was designed by someone who thought JSP framesets were the pinnacle of web technology. ...