Software Design

On Thresholds

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 - 2:40pm

I had a production system go down this week - one minute no problem, the next, critical functionality stopped working.  Worse, it didn't die because something broke - it went down by design. And did so without warning.

Fail Loudly

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 - 7:35pm

The premise that systems should "fail fast" is pretty well established - the idea has it's own wikipedia page, and any number of books talk about it as a fundamental premise.

For example, Release It! from the Pragmatic Bookshelf makes several references to Fail Fast in Chapter 5: Stability patterns.

Working with WPF

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 1 Jun 2008 - 10:22pm

Recently, on one of the mailing lists I read, someone wrote:

With WPF, I see development and training time being bumped up (at least) a notch or two for no reason other than having a flasher UI.

I thought it worth sharing my response ...

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