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I’m reviewing some ALM (Application Life-Cycle Management) work for a colleague, so I thought it would help to rehydrate a map of the ALM space. I’m a fan of having simple maps to find my way around. By map, I simply mean topics and categories, and ideally sub-categories to help see the lay of the …
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — Edwards Deming As an early adopter of Agile methodology, I’ve witnessed firsthand how the framework has revolutionized software development. But as software development became faster and more efficient, security concerns became more complex and pressing. To bridge this gap, I developed the Agile Security …
In this post, I’ll focus on design, code, and deployment inspections for performance. Inspections are a white-box technique to proactively check against specific criteria. You can integrate inspections at key stages in your life cycle, such as design, implementation and deployment. Keys to Effective Inspections Know what you’re looking for. Use scenarios to illustrate a …
To engineer for performance, you need to embed a performance culture in your development life cycle, and you need a methodology. When you use a methodology, you know where to start, how to proceed, and when you are finished. Keys to Performance Engineering These are fundamental concepts to performance engineering: Set objectives and measure. Performance …
“Optimizing performance without first measuring is like shooting in the dark without knowing what you are aiming at.” — Paul Hsieh. 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 …
