Deployment

For anyone who knows the real Accenture work life, I know it will be hard to believe that in my almost three years of stay in this company, I have never worked on night shifts. As with all things in life, that is about to change.

I was asked to be part of the deployment support group in our team. Usually, I would decline night shifts but for some reason, I accepted this one. Actually, come to think of it, this is really not a night shift but more of a 24-hour shift because we still had to go to the office in the morning and stay at night for the deployment. I was literally awake for 24 full hours!

Generally, I thought it was a nice experience. I didn't have to come to office today so I had enough time to sleep, attend to some errands then go on gimmicks. And the food during deployment was overflowing! We had dinner at North Park, had dessert in Starbucks, had lots of chips and empanada the whole time, and ate a buffet breakfast in RCBC. And I didn't have to spend a single dime! Yahoo!

Another good thing about being there when the application gets deployed is that you get to 'protect' your module. At 4am, the testing team verified that my module wasn't working in the production environment! It didn't matter that I was so sleepy because I was up for more than 20 hours then; I became wide awake when I heard that. My heart was pumping hard while trying to investigate. Good thing, it was just a false alarm. There were just some discrepancies in the configuration that was migrated to production. In short, it’s not my fault! Haha!

Kudos to my team for successfully producing high quality application to our customers! You guys are: High Performance. Delivered.