While there is always some new tool or technique to learn in programming, there are other things where you think you've already got it sorted. Commenting your code is one of those things for me. When I read a recent article on comments, that asked if comments were good or bad, I thought "Obviously, they're … Continue reading I couldn’t possibly comment
Category: Quality
Designing your system for when it fails (which it will)
A couple of excellent related videos from Goto Conference 2017. Some highlights are below. Metrics are better than nothing, but some context will make them much more useful. (My queue is filling up - is that because more things are arriving than I'd expect, or things are leaving more slowly?) Alerts and logs better than … Continue reading Designing your system for when it fails (which it will)
Here be dragons: testing your error handling code
Who tests the error handling parts of their code? You might want to start doing this after watching this very interesting video from Goto Conference 2016. Among other things, the speaker summarises a paper that investigates catastrophic failures in things like MapReduce, Cassandra etc. 58% of the catastrophic failures could have been prevented by testing … Continue reading Here be dragons: testing your error handling code
Getting your System into Production, and Keeping it There
An excellent video by Eoin Woods from Goto Conference 2015. The grown-up, how not to get called in the middle of the night, part to software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWVsTkYfUM
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