My employer is a large Swiss Telco. We have many Systems used to transfer data for different tasks, e.g. Performance Management, Fault Management, Configuration Management etc. In order explain to "Management" (pointy haired, and other) how these systems interact, I collected information about data flow/formats/protocols into a "databa...
What is the best way to replicate the update stream to a large (6TB) oracle db into another non-DBMS system? I don't need to "bulk load" the oracle db, but merely want to flow all updates into another home-grown system in near realtime (10s latency or less). Updates happen at the rate of 150 rows/second representing 10s of megabytes pe...
I am having problem creating log entry to a text file. Here is my logging configuration in my ASP.net app. and here is my vb.net code Try ...
Suppose you're the product manager for an internal enterprise web application that has 2000 users and 7 developers. You have a list of 350 future features, each ranging from 5 to 150 developer days of work. How do you choose what features to work on, and how do you run the release process? Here's what I'm thinking: (skip if boring) R...
In organisations where you have large numbers of applications, written in a myriad of languages running on innumerable platforms and databases how do folks manage the release of builds and patches, particularly when some of the releases are 3rd party? I know there a whole bunch of "Release Management" applications out there, but I'd be i...
Hi, how do you go about migrating your (large, important, well-tested) application to a new Linux distribution? Did you do so recently, if so, how did you overcome the problems of large numbers of upgraded components with changed behaviour? How did your build system cope with the overlap when you had to support old and new version? Did ...
Is the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Ruby / Python) stack appropriate for Enterprise use? To be clear, by "Enterprise", I mean a large or very large company, where security, robustness, availability of skill sets, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), scalability, and availability of tools are key considerations. Said another way, a compa...
Hi, I have a windows service that s synchronises 2 databases using Enterprise Servcies. I t uses a ServicedComponent to do distributed transaction. I am getting a TransactionProxyException and the problem is intermittent. ie run the same data a second time and it may not happen. Anyone know what may cause this exception or guide how ...
Hi All, I want to create an application which will have a client and server components. The client may not be connected to the internet all the time, and hence will have to store data locally and then sync with the server whenever the internet connection is available. The data sync will be both ways: client to server and server to clien...
I would like to build an application that will run on a web, this is for an enterprise solution, but I don't know what kind of framework that I'll be using, does anyone out there could recommend a framework that is best suited in .NET/ASP.NET application that could handle DAL, BLL and GUI, other than CSLA.NET? ...
Imagine a Java client/server ERP application serving up to 100 concurrent users, both web and swing clients. For persistence we can use Persistence API and Hibernate. But when it comes to client/server communication, do we really have an alternative to using an AS with EJBs to keep down the programming costs of remote communication? It...
I recently started working at a company with an enormous "enterprisey" application. At my last job, I designed the database, but here we have a whole Database Architecture department that I'm not part of. One of the stranger things in their database is that they have a bunch of views which, instead of having the user provide the date r...
Any help here is really appreciated. I'm looking for new work and I'm working through a recruiter for this one company who "likes my resume", but... The recruiter says that are looking for someone with "commercial enterprise solution" experience and do I have that experience. Does anyone know what this exactly means? Or is it just anothe...
Is anyone out there using Drupal for large scale, business critical enterprise applications? Does Drupal's lack of database transaction support dissuade potential users? Are there any other lightweight web-frameworks based on dynamic languages that people are using for these types of apps? What about Java portals such as JBossPortal or...
Hi. I'm looking for an enterprise-grade template printing system. I'm interested in every software I can get my hands on to evaluate. Commercial or not. What I need - a separate system ready to receive tags in order to print (digital or paper) a template (like a contract, invoice, etc). Templates should be managed by the same software....
There are a couple of questions on Stackoverflow asking whether x (Ruby / Drupal) technology is 'enterprise ready'. I would like to ask how is 'enterprise ready' defined. Has anyone created their own checklist? Does anyone have a benchmark that they test against? ...
I work for a scandinavian yellow pages. The company is looking at moving its bespoke search technology over to FAST ESP. Like all big, expensive systems with relatively few installations, it is difficult to get feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the system. Are there any stackoverflowers who have experience of FAST ESP and wan...
A while ago another question referred to the (possibly urban tale) statistic that ... the average lifespan of software is about 3 years At the time I came up with the following reasons (and I'm sure there are more possibly better ones): A new major system (ERP, CRM, etc.) is implemented and it has an "integrated" module to repla...
If you had to choose an enterprise scheduling system which would you choose and why? The current contenders are: UC4 v CA AutoSys. ...
I am a CS student that knows his way around ASP.NET, MVC, Ruby On Rails, MS SQL, C#, Java and so on. I have also immersed myself in the ALT.NET community. Avid reader of Jeff and Joel, CodeBetter.com, Martin Fowler and so on. A while ago I asked "Implications of Sharepoint, BizTalk, Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft CRM for a .NET develo...