How many bugs do you have in your code?

If you follow Zero Bug Tolerance of course you’re not supposed to have any bugs to fix after the code…

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Software Estimation is not a Black Art

Construx Software is one of the few companies that take the problems of estimation in software development seriously. Earlier this…

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Developing and Testing in the Cloud

There’s a lot of hype around “the Cloud” and what it can do. One of the things that I am…

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Failure Isolation and Recovery: Learning from High-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing

While I have been building business-critical enterprise systems for a long time, I haven’t worked on high-scale cloud computing or…

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Lessons in Software Reliability

What does it take to build reliable and stable enterprise software? First, stop writing lousy code It’s unfortunate that few…

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Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse?

All of us have known for a long time that code reviews find defects, and that reviews are cheaper and…

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