{"id":26713,"date":"2007-05-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/24\/we-should-just-get-rid-of-that-stupid-middle-tier\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:00:00","slug":"we-should-just-get-rid-of-that-stupid-middle-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070524-00\/?p=26713","title":{"rendered":"We should just get rid of that stupid middle tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our line-of-business applications sometimes gets very heavily loaded, and several times a day, when you try to issue a query or update a record, you&#8217;ll get the error message, &#8220;Unable to contact middle tier. (other technical gibberish goes here)&#8221;.\n Whenever this happens, I like to amuse myself by shouting &#8220;Stupid middle tier! We should just get rid of it. It&#8217;s always unresponsive.&#8221;\n Of course, this is a joke along the lines of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/09\/05\/741110.aspx\"> changing that&nbsp;15 to a&nbsp;1<\/a>. The system follows the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three-tier_(computing)\"> three-tier model<\/a>. Getting rid of the middle tier won&#8217;t actually fix anything.<\/p>\n<p> But if the error message keeps blaming the middle tier, then to a naive user (or in this case, a willfully stupid one), getting rid of the problematic component might not sound like that bad an idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our line-of-business applications sometimes gets very heavily loaded, and several times a day, when you try to issue a query or update a record, you&#8217;ll get the error message, &#8220;Unable to contact middle tier. (other technical gibberish goes here)&#8221;. Whenever this happens, I like to amuse myself by shouting &#8220;Stupid middle tier! We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-26713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of our line-of-business applications sometimes gets very heavily loaded, and several times a day, when you try to issue a query or update a record, you&#8217;ll get the error message, &#8220;Unable to contact middle tier. (other technical gibberish goes here)&#8221;. Whenever this happens, I like to amuse myself by shouting &#8220;Stupid middle tier! We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}