We Thought It Works

Lyrics

We Thought It Works

[Intro]
We’re building software in the cloud,
SaaS and web, we shout it loud.
The clients upload all their files,
but chaos starts – it runs for miles.

[Verse 1]
Wrong birthdates sent – oh what a shame,
empty fields – it’s all the same.
The processing just breaks apart,
and nobody admits their part.

[Chorus]
We thought it works!
(Background vocals: Cloud Team! Cloud Team!)
The CPU just hurts!
The service’s down –
and no one keeps it running now.
We thought it works!
The data is reversed…
In the cloud, in the cloud – oh dear!

[Verse 2]
The client asks: “Why’s it so slow?
The UI doesn’t load, you know?”
The servers glow at hundred percent,
“Are you stress-testing?” – “Yes, that’s what we meant.”

We ask them then: “Why not tell us so?”
They laugh and shrug: “We didn’t know!”
We could have scaled the boxes high,
but now they burn and wonder why.

[Chorus]
We thought it works!
(Background vocals: Cloud Team! Cloud Team!)
The CPU just hurts!
The service’s down –
and no one keeps it running now.
We thought it works!
The data is reversed…
In the cloud, in the cloud – oh dear!

[Verse 3]
Another asks: “Why nothing’s erased?
Your software bugged? A big disgrace?”
But Thursday’s load had failed again,
on Monday they resent in vain.

Without the file with deletions inside,
the records stay and will not hide.
So back and forth the data goes,
but no deletions – nothing shows.

[Bridge]
(Background vocals: Zip, zip hooray – zip, zip too late!)
FTP, SCP, S3 –
errors always travel free.
We scale the system up so high –
but patience runs in short supply.

[Final Chorus]
We thought it works! (Background vocals: Oh nooo…)
The CPU just hurts!
The service’s down – (Background vocals: Ticket raised!)
and no one keeps it running now.

We thought it works! (Background vocals: Performance Test!)
The data is reversed…
In the cloud, in the cloud – oh dear!
In the cloud, in the cloud – oh yeah!