Reducing the Cycle Time
Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
2024-12-04
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Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
2024-12-04
94 reads
Today Steve wonders how many software developers use separate connections for reads and writes in their application.
2024-11-13
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Ignoring technical debt can cause no shortage of problems for companies. Today Steve has a recent example of this.
2024-10-21
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The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
2024-10-11
161 reads
How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
2024-10-09
178 reads
All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was generally decided that simple text files containing key/values were best, stored with the application. After all, you are relying on being able to entice busy people to get the permanent settings right for their requirements, folks who are generally not interested in your elegant computer science constructs. Not only that, but the settings must be parsed very quickly and efficiently, otherwise a process that uses the tool will slow to a crawl.
2024-10-04
Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.
2024-09-20
423 reads
This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.
2024-08-19
203 reads
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
2024-07-19
166 reads
By HeyMo0sh
In my experience, FinOps success has never been just about tools or dashboards. It...
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps person, I know that to make FinOps successful, you need more...
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who works in DevOps, I’m always focused on creating systems that are...
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers