Unit and integration level tests are not enough by themselves as the gap between the systems these tests run on and the actually production system is too great, and with the complexity cloud deployments allow this gap is growing. Yes, you can run a set of smoke tests in production but that doesn't hide the fact that most of the testing is not performed in a realistic environment.
I've always felt that integrating and keeping up to date test automation processes as the greatest challange in the CI/CD space. As business cycles get shorter, creating and maintaining the required set of test automation processes that can give you confidence in the final production release can be an immense challange. This together with the increasing complexity of cloud based systems has made the testing challange a really hard nut to crack.
Recently for the first time I had experienced working with software developers from India. They were all recent migrants working with a consulting company. In my project team we had about 20 of these engineers that I had to manage and for the most part they were pretty good. On the plus side, they were hard working and keen to learn and best of all they were able to LISTEN and take responsibility on what was sometimes quite a stressful project. The negative side would be perhaps having the courage to take initiative and move the team in a new and better direction, but maybe that will come as experience grows.
Overall a pretty good experience. I would definitely work with some of them again.
No. The Chinese alone are not responsible for exorbitant Australian property prices. They are just one of many factors. Larger factors include generous tax concessions (negative gearing and capital gains discounts) and the role of property investors (mostly mum's and dad's) buying their second (or more) property. Possibly the biggest factor is that everyone want's to buy in the inner-city areas of Melbourne and Sydney due to poor infrastructure and jobs growth outside these areas. House prices in other Australian capital cities are much lower in general and rarely in boom conditions.
Look at this article from the Murdoch press (aka. right side of politics) chinese property investment in Australia its a more balanced view of the effect of Chinese property investments.
This project is life changing for a billion people. By the end of the decade and into the next decade its effect on Indian society and the economy will become clearly visible. Such projects have great challanges to overcome and there will be some cases of fraud but it will be on a substantially smaller scale than currently happens.
I like my all knowing computers to constantly remind humans of their insignificance and gross inferiority. No computer personified this more than ORAC from the 1980's British Sci-Fi "Blake's 7".
Also with a per capita GDP of about 1,500 USD your definition of middle class is pretty low-end.
Have you heard of "Purchasing Power Parity"? If not then hit up Wikipedia and learn about it so I don't have to waste precious seconds of my life correcting your ignorance.
This is just what India needs to energise public opinion and motivate politicians and government to actually rebuild India's decrepit old infrastructure.
The Amiga was probably the first affordable personal computer that had a mutitasking GUI as shipped. Plus specialised multi-processing of sorts if you included the custom chips.
CP/M did not have multitasking at all. AmigaOS did but the lack of memory protection and / or virtual memory made it very flakey.
Memory Management Units (MMUs) integrated into CPUs were not common place till much later - MC68030s and onwards firsted used in big box Amigas such as the A3000. You need this hardware to efficiently implement memory protection and virtual memory. Yes, flakey apps would bring the system down quickly but that meant bugs were either fixed quickly or the application was not used. I used many applications on my Amiga and stability was usually pretty good, especially comapared to the MSDOS/Windows of the time. It is not that hard for a good software developer to eliminate those bugs from his application that would crash the system.
The summary is a bit dum. Morphos is an attempt to build what should have been the next Amiga OS. Which at the time Commodore went under was migrating the Amiga to PPC.
Jaguar are selling more cars now than ever before. In part due to Tata's good management. The brand has been reinvigorated rather than been killed off.
China is the world's largest car market having recently overtaken the US. So it makes sense to move some production facilities there.
Give credit where it's due and be thankful that a savvy operator like Tata gave new life to these otherwise dying car brands and stop your old world bias.
Cringely reached his peak during the making of "Triumph of the Nerds" and the follow up series "Nerds 2.0.1". They were both some of the best historical documentaries ever done on the PC and Internet revolutions. Since then he has failed to deliver on subsequent projects.
Here's hoping there is one more great documentary series left in the old Cringe!
Slashdot Mirror
Here in Oz, last evening it was obvious the Internet was slowing down drastically, oh wait I'm on the NBN....
Unit and integration level tests are not enough by themselves as the gap between the systems these tests run on and the actually production system is too great, and with the complexity cloud deployments allow this gap is growing. Yes, you can run a set of smoke tests in production but that doesn't hide the fact that most of the testing is not performed in a realistic environment.
I've always felt that integrating and keeping up to date test automation processes as the greatest challange in the CI/CD space. As business cycles get shorter, creating and maintaining the required set of test automation processes that can give you confidence in the final production release can be an immense challange. This together with the increasing complexity of cloud based systems has made the testing challange a really hard nut to crack.
Read his post...he's just a clueless PHB. They were good because they filled out TPS reports daily and did the wrong things he told them to do.
Wrong! I'm an engineer with 20+ years of experience.
Recently for the first time I had experienced working with software developers from India. They were all recent migrants working with a consulting company. In my project team we had about 20 of these engineers that I had to manage and for the most part they were pretty good. On the plus side, they were hard working and keen to learn and best of all they were able to LISTEN and take responsibility on what was sometimes quite a stressful project. The negative side would be perhaps having the courage to take initiative and move the team in a new and better direction, but maybe that will come as experience grows.
Overall a pretty good experience. I would definitely work with some of them again.
No. The Chinese alone are not responsible for exorbitant Australian property prices. They are just one of many factors. Larger factors include generous tax concessions (negative gearing and capital gains discounts) and the role of property investors (mostly mum's and dad's) buying their second (or more) property. Possibly the biggest factor is that everyone want's to buy in the inner-city areas of Melbourne and Sydney due to poor infrastructure and jobs growth outside these areas. House prices in other Australian capital cities are much lower in general and rarely in boom conditions.
Look at this article from the Murdoch press (aka. right side of politics) chinese property investment in Australia its a more balanced view of the effect of Chinese property investments.
Oh fuck. America land of the big white racist cunts.
I think the comparison is more with OSX. Remember AmigaOS was a fully preemptive multitasking system in 1985.
"it will still be death by spaghettification, not by incineration!"
Thats a relief.
This is the budget version.
"Indian Mars probe successfully completes mission as slashdot twits eat large quantities of Humble Pie!!"
This project is life changing for a billion people. By the end of the decade and into the next decade its effect on Indian society and the economy will become clearly visible. Such projects have great challanges to overcome and there will be some cases of fraud but it will be on a substantially smaller scale than currently happens.
I like my all knowing computers to constantly remind humans of their insignificance and gross inferiority. No computer personified this more than ORAC from the 1980's British Sci-Fi "Blake's 7".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoHkaFDTiD8
and remember "modesty would be dishonesty" for such an intelligence!
Nuff said.
Also with a per capita GDP of about 1,500 USD your definition of middle class is pretty low-end.
Have you heard of "Purchasing Power Parity"? If not then hit up Wikipedia and learn about it so I don't have to waste precious seconds of my life correcting your ignorance.
Its not like most slashdotters are getting any.
Only on Slashdot does an AC get modded Informative for pointing out that the LHC is in Europe.
and modded as 'Insightful' for pointing out that Europe is not part of America.
When Google are testing their cars in India then we know they are about ready...
This is just what India needs to energise public opinion and motivate politicians and government to actually rebuild India's decrepit old infrastructure.
The Amiga was probably the first affordable personal computer that had a mutitasking GUI as shipped. Plus specialised multi-processing of sorts if you included the custom chips.
CP/M did not have multitasking at all. AmigaOS did but the lack of memory protection and / or virtual memory made it very flakey.
Memory Management Units (MMUs) integrated into CPUs were not common place till much later - MC68030s and onwards firsted used in big box Amigas such as the A3000. You need this hardware to efficiently implement memory protection and virtual memory. Yes, flakey apps would bring the system down quickly but that meant bugs were either fixed quickly or the application was not used. I used many applications on my Amiga and stability was usually pretty good, especially comapared to the MSDOS/Windows of the time. It is not that hard for a good software developer to eliminate those bugs from his application that would crash the system.
The summary is a bit dum. Morphos is an attempt to build what should have been the next Amiga OS. Which at the time Commodore went under was migrating the Amiga to PPC.
Jaguar are selling more cars now than ever before. In part due to Tata's good management. The brand has been reinvigorated rather than been killed off.
China is the world's largest car market having recently overtaken the US. So it makes sense to move some production facilities there.
Give credit where it's due and be thankful that a savvy operator like Tata gave new life to these otherwise dying car brands and stop your old world bias.
Can I have one?
Cringely reached his peak during the making of "Triumph of the Nerds" and the follow up series "Nerds 2.0.1". They were both some of the best historical documentaries ever done on the PC and Internet revolutions. Since then he has failed to deliver on subsequent projects.
Here's hoping there is one more great documentary series left in the old Cringe!