I remember our production team arguing a split brain situation in a mirrored server where the support engineer kept insisting it was impossible and the team said It's right here...

In a perfect world yes, however my experience of working in FTSE 100 technology and financial services companies is often the opposite. The bigger the company, the greater the pressure...

It is one of those practises that needs to become a habit rather than something you have to apply conscious thought other than that needed to educate people new to...

In terms of physical data centre security I am pretty sure that Amazon's data centres are considerably more robust than many companies can provide.

I am also sure that economies of...

Having a local cache is sensible. The caveat to storing data locally is to check the terms and conditions for whatever the data is.

There's a lot of information out there...

sql-troubles (7/29/2016)

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I think the postcodes aren’t the best example in what concern the data quality assessment rules. Even if one succeeds in his attempts of reengineering the postcodes rules, by...

Go ahead. In an ideal world we'd have a...

Thanks and good spot.

Excellent point about confidence. It's too...

Amen brother!

I had the experience of trying to deprecate...

I get the point about 10x data loads but that is stress testing rather than unit testing.

Stress testing is incredibly important. The reason for separating out unit, integration, ...

I am trying to get unit tests working on an application that depends on various frameworks.

The code as written is convoluted, poorly structured and obscure. I am not...

With few exceptions I stayed in most of my jobs too long and share the experience expressed in the editorial.

In all cases I stayed because I got on well with...

Fred P Brooks wrote a paper called "The 2nd system affect". It's worth reviewing it.

The problem with a rewrite is that identifying the true scope and therefore the costs...

cad.delworth (7/20/2016)

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Anyone who is not a US citizen, or not a US company, should be aware that data owned by non-US citizens but held on servers under US jurisdiction is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/19/2016)

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David.Poole (7/19/2016)

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This situation destroys trust between IT and business people. The question "Why don't you know how to alter the system you wrote?" Is...