[cstreit]

Hey folks, need some advice here:

We're attempting to bring a new customer live and they have a 3rd party that manages their databases. That 3rd party is responsible for extracting and transforming data for us and are 5 months behind in the work.

The developer there has told me that the main issue they are having is performance. Apparently they've built a bunch of steps in ColdFusion but that these steps cannot reliably trigger each other. So they have to execute a step, wait two hours to ensure it has completed, then execute the next step, otherwise they all kick off at once and then the end processes die before starting.

Is this normal? This runs contrary to every language/environment I've heard of where basic linear batch scheduling is simple.

Are we getting the run-around?