Category Archives: Editorial

The Cost of Rework

Posted on July 1, 2024 by way0utwest

I often deal with customers who are looking to improve the way they build and manage database software. These could be small companies or large enterprises, with teams of developers trying to enhance their application software to solve new business … Continue reading →

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What Metrics Do You Collect?

Posted on June 28, 2024 by way0utwest

One of the hot terms in software these days is observability. There are a few definitions (Splunk, RadixWeb), but essentially this is the insight into how your software runs and performs using metrics, logs, traces, etc. In DevOps, we do … Continue reading →

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Where to Test Your Code

Posted on June 26, 2024 by way0utwest

The last 10-15 years in software development have seen a widespread embracing of unit testing. Before the popularity of mobile phones and their apps, most of the organizations I’d worked in gave lip service to automated unit testing, and often … Continue reading →

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What Do You Want to Learn?

Posted on June 24, 2024 by way0utwest

There are lots of resources for learning: articles at SQL Server Central, blogs, user groups, SQL Saturday and other events, conferences, and more. In most of those cases, the editor, author, or speaker is deciding what they want to write … Continue reading →

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