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Opinion: Performance Testing
Performance tuning an application is time consuming, and expensive. Useful tests often need dedicated hardware to run on. It’s specialised and time consuming to prepare the ground ...
Trying to understand CAP
The CAP theorem, stated by Brewer and proved by Gilbert and Lynch specifies a property of distributed systems. It states that such a system cannot guarantee at the same time Consistency, ...
Tear Down the Walls! – Shattering Team Boundaries
One of the biggest complications in large software development projects is overcoming the boundaries between teams. When (and if) things are rolling smoothly on a project, these lines ...
Motivation, Creativity and Innovation
I am a strong believer in that every individual on this earth can be creative and that hard focused work beats natural talent in every way. Personally I get really inspired by observing ...
It’s Not an Issue. It’s a Bug.
When something goes wrong, do you or do you not say something like this:My bug crashed the system. Our bug crashed the system. Some bug crashed the system. There’s a defect. We ...
Do Web 2.0 Companies Really Have The Best Technical Talent?
There are a lot of cool companies with products on the web that millions of people are using. I’ll wondered whether I should label them “web 2.0?, “silicon valley”, “cool ...
Resign Patterns: Eliminate them with Agile practices and Quality Metrics
This blog post is inspired by the article titled Resign Patterns by Michael Duell. I’ve included all the original text from the above article but for each anti-pattern I mention (at ...
An unambiguous software version scheme
When people talk about software versioning schemes they often refer to the commonly used X.Y.Z numerical scheme for versioning. This is often referred to major.minor.build, but these ...
Provocateurs Gather the Best Requirements
Ask someone what they want, and they’ll tell you they want a faster horse. Provoke them, and they’ll tell you they have a ‘get there faster’ problem, an ‘equine waste disposal’ ...
Technical Debt – when do you have to pay it off?
There are 2 times to think about technical debt:When you are building a system and making trade-off decisions between what can be done now and what will need to be done “sometime ...
