Most every employer comprises various teams. The large versions are often called business units or departments. Of course, they can also be smaller assemblages of employees—committees, workgroups or ...

This is the sixth in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline – Application Performance Engineering (APE). In this newsletter we will discuss how establishing ...

Whether a device is a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, every piece of hardware Apple makes needs to go through several prototype and development stages. Here's what that looks like, and what Apple calls each ...

At its core, DevOps is a philosophy that emphasizes communication and collaboration between development and operations teams and continuous testing and release of new features on a regular basis. And ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

When I was managing software development, one of the messiest and least efficient areas was the system test region that was set up so programmers could unit test their applications. In the fray of ...