Category: Enterprise
11 Apr, 2019
Who’s Really in Control of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Today, if you are building and operating cloud-based or cloud-native applications, the concentration of the source for TCO comes from one place. Your development team. That’s right, the developers essentially control your TCO and neither the business or the developers probably even know it. How is this possible? It...
27 Mar, 2018
8 Things About Digital Transformation Your Parents Never Told You
“Digitial Transformation” has become the buzz phrase du jour. Technology vendors, service providers, and government entities are all heavily investing in either providing transformative digital capabilities or consuming them. Either way, the goal is the same, to be one of the winners of the digital transformation wave that is...
06 Mar, 2018
Emergent Technologies Changing Our World – Part 2
Most everyone is familiar with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and maybe some of the derivatives or competitors; there are several variations of blockchains unleashed on the world today. Many are predicting these digital currencies to be where the value of the economy of the future will be stored- the currency of...
27 Feb, 2018
Migrating to Elastic Search: A Case Study
I am a member of a development team that has nearly completed the task of replacing Apache Solr with Elasticsearch for our web application. This case study is a recounting of the methods used and challenges faced during the experience. Read on to learn why and how we pulled...
20 Apr, 2017
Taming of the Subselect: Three ways to use this troublesome SQL Query
Subselects can be used in many ways: filtering, retrieving specific data, and creating custom joins. Writing effective SQL using subselects, though, can be frustrating. While SQL is ubiquitous in software engineering and is a valuable skill for testing, data analysis and reporting, nowadays a lot of SQL is abstracted...
10 Jan, 2017
Software vs The Evil Forces of Entropy
Requirements evolve, technology evolves, processes evolve, and users evolve. So why is it that the systems, applications, and their underlying architectures seemingly get built in a way that after a couple iterations of extension, they become brittle and saddled with “technical debt”? More importantly, is there anything that can...
28 Apr, 2016
Multi-Tenancy for Testing
Any time you make a change to software, you run the risk of breaking some part of the system that was previously working. That’s why any well-run software development project has regression tests. You want to make sure that any changes don’t have any negative impacts, and regression tests...
08 Oct, 2015
Full Stack Development: Hardware to Cloud
Traditionally, a full-stack developer has the ability to develop both front-end and back-end software. In the age of the cloud and connected devices, this definition is limiting and misleading. The modern full stack developer now embraces hardware as a key to delivering breakthrough applications. Over the years, a lot...
28 Aug, 2015
Evolving in Place
A systematic approach to replacing old technologies and applications with new can save you time and money, improve continuity of operations, and allow you to keep up with your competitors. I often work with clients that have dated technologies and infrastructures, stuff that was modern and based on (mostly) good...
30 Mar, 2015
Continuous Delivery Continuum
Continuous Delivery exists on a continuum as a constellation of capabilities rather than as a destination