The engineering team just hired a new lead developer who came from a major Silicon Valley firm.
He scheduled a 1-on-1 meeting with me to review our core database architecture.
He opened his laptop and pointed out that all of our enterprise user data was routing to a single, monolithic Excel file on a local drive.
He said it was the most horrific thing he had ever seen in his 15-year professional career.
He asked me why a Fortune 500 company was running its entire infrastructure off a spreadsheet from 2014.
I didn't even blink.
I told him we don't use standard relational databases because they're inherently vulnerable to SQL injection.
I explained that our architecture is a proprietary flat-file hyper-matrix.
I said it completely bypasses traditional query language, making it virtually invisible to foreign state hackers.
He stared at me for a long time and said the file was constantly crashing because it had 4 million rows.
I told him the crashes were actually automated micro-reboots designed to clear the cache and maintain system latency.
I used the phrase "kinetic data obfuscation."
He started sweating and asked how we handle concurrent write requests from 50 different sales reps.
I told him we enforce a strict single-thread chronological bottleneck to ensure absolute data purity.
That just means whoever clicks save last overwrites everything everyone else did.
He looked like he was going to have a panic attack right there in the conference room.
He asked if we had any plans to migrate the data to AWS or Azure.
I told him the cloud is just a computer owned by someone else, and I don't surrender corporate sovereignty to third parties.
He resigned the next morning citing irreconcilable technical differences.
I had HR classify his departure as a failure to adapt to our culture.
Qaf, I fell down today and a shawarma with extra tahini fell into my mouth. Also an apple slice and around 3 litres of water. Should I keep fasting or is it Allah who has fed me?