Tag Archives: software development

Reasonable Timeframes

Posted on February 11, 2016 by way0utwest

Many of us hear about problems with various systems on a regular basis. We report them in Database Weekly far too often, and I’m sure a few of you have been informed (or found) bugs, nagging issues, even vulnerabilities in … Continue reading →

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Queues in Databases

Posted on February 3, 2016 by way0utwest

I ran across this post, The Database as a Queue Anti-Pattern, and it struck a chord. I both agree and disagree with the premise, and certainly see this as another case of the “it depends.” However, I am curious what others … Continue reading →

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Maybe Security is Harder than Rocket Science

Posted on February 2, 2016 by way0utwest

I was giving a talk last year about software development and I made an off-hand remark that most of developers out there shouldn’t be writing authentication schemes for applications. My reasoning was that most people aren’t good at writing these … Continue reading →

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Push Button Deployments

Posted on January 21, 2016 by way0utwest

I worked in an Agile team in 2000 and we deployed changes to our web platform every Wednesday for over 18 months. That was about the length of time I was involved before the small startup failed, but not for … Continue reading →

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