There's this whole thing about how they are getting data from mainframes where "the data was being returned in between one and six milliseconds".
But then: "harvest that data from the magnetic tape and load them up into more traditional databases. That Java application was extracting the data from the databases"
But then: "But the data from the mainframes was actually arriving (from its new home in the database) in less than six milliseconds. The bottleneck was — of course — the Java application."
So of course it is entirely possibly to write slow Java applications. But then the story seems to end! So what happened? Did they fix the application?
There's this whole thing about how they are getting data from mainframes where "the data was being returned in between one and six milliseconds".
But then: "harvest that data from the magnetic tape and load them up into more traditional databases. That Java application was extracting the data from the databases"
But then: "But the data from the mainframes was actually arriving (from its new home in the database) in less than six milliseconds. The bottleneck was — of course — the Java application."
So of course it is entirely possibly to write slow Java applications. But then the story seems to end! So what happened? Did they fix the application?