We have a large system that processes logs from a very large web site. By large I mean a site that has more than 300,000 updates per day. Yes. Per day! I've just finished an update to this system to correct a bug. Part of the problem doing the work was a lack of documentation for the system. Most questions were met with "Ask Andre, he'l...
Good day all, I'm the "lead developer" for a major Excel based application that handles the production of a few mine sites. It talks to a bunch of databases, tries its best to help out users, and generally clunks along just fine through a mix of Solver, VBA, and in cell formulas. Our development team is tiny and is composed entirely of...
In a large corporation I worked in previously a manager purchased a $50,000+ Websphere production license despite the fact that he only needed a container to run a couple of servlets on a small intranet system. Assuming we agree that this was overkill, to say the least, and that a free servlet runner like Tomcat would probably have suf...
On the software development projects that you have worked on, what has been the approximate cost (expressed as a percentage of total system cost) of system integration? System integration includes integrating with other software, databases, etc. ...