Big UAT coming up

We created a new and pretty portal for one of our clients. What is unique about this is it is all about social networking. Employees of my client can use this site to blog, subscribe to RSS feeds, add friends to their network, personalize their home page etc. After gruel system testing, we will launch it into UAT mode next week. Pre UAT tasks include SSO enabling, Search integration with Endeca and bunch of configuration changes to the JVM settings. Performance testing is pending and that scares me a lot. But our team is confident that they will benchmark before release. I already increased heap size and also made GC parallel to use the two CPU cores.

Next release include enabling wikis, streaming server integration etc. Third step (in 2009) is retiring the old system and migrating the whole data from old system to new system.

Quite thrilled.

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This is an amazing story of how powerful the social networking is and how social communities help in real life.

On the side note, I would like to warn that privacy is a never ending debate. I see orkut for sure is abused by many folks. The scrap messages range from sharing phone numbers, addresses to much more personal details. Some even proposing, dating on scraps. Either the implications are not well thought of or they are careless.

I am also not sure how much net educated are parents. I hope that these social networking sites publish some articles on child safety etc for creating awareness to parents. Ideally teachers also should play a major role in this.

BTW, I twitter at https://twitter.com/vamc Welcome to my friends