Inspiring the World with Innovation
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” — Babe Ruth It’s nice now and then to take a look back, and really figure out the core of what worked (and what didn’t). I reviewed my model for how I shipped super successful software back in patterns & practices. I learned a …
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly, rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” — Bill Gates As leaders are learning how to be more Agile and how to improve agility in their organizations, they look to User Stories. Leaders are discovering how User Stories are a powerful way to prioritize and focus. The power …
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”—Edwards Deming I gave a talk for the developer security MVPs. While I focused primarily on Azure Security, I did briefly cover Agile Security Engineering. Here is the figure I used to help show how we do Agile Security Engineering on the Microsoft patterns & practices …
From a software performance standpoint, “hot spots” are an area of intense activity. They’re hot spots because they’re frequently executed code paths with some sort of friction or bottleneck. They represent potential optimization paths for improving the performance of your code or design. You find the hot spots by measuring and analyzing the system. Stepping …
While working on the book, Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability, my team created the software performance frame. We used the performance frame to organize and prioritize software performance and scalability issues. We used this frame throughout the guide to organize our guidelines and checklists. We also used the performance frame to build evaluation criteria …
