How WebMD ran in the year 2000 (Ship It! #103)
All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD's self diagnosis. Some sysadmin's on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.
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- 0:00 This is Ship It!
- 0:51 The opener
- 16:21 Sponsor: Sentry
- 20:16 Welcome Rich Burroughs!
- 23:05 Early scaling
- 25:55 Returning responsibilities
- 27:46 Moving to WebMD
- 34:12 Single use web servers
- 35:04 CVS before Git
- 38:18 Rich's IIS story
- 41:47 Why Elon got kicked from PayPal
- 42:35 Early work environments
- 44:25 The mansion from Gone with the Wind
- 45:21 WebMD migration to office
- 46:16 In front of the bubble
- 48:37 Learning from then
- 49:48 DNS never worked
- 51:43 Things start open
- 56:28 The current bubble
- 1:00:06 Is this a never-ending circle?
- 1:05:02 Just say I don't know
- 1:07:01 Thanks for joining us!
- 1:07:55 Where to reach out
- 1:09:44 The closer
- 1:25:29 Outro
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