Tips for Implementing Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
On March 15, the ProFocus team had the privilege of hosting a Leaders Lunch for Portland-based software development managers. Moderated by John Boone, President of ProFocus Technology, our roundtable discussion focused on Continuous Integration and Continuous...
How Data Lakes Help Break Down Silos
If there’s one problem every modern IT organization struggles with, it’s the problem of data silos. Take a typical sales department. If you were the vice president of the sales department in your organization, you’d want to make sure all your leads, customer...
The Application Security Gap
If you work in an office environment, tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re issued a computer for your everyday tasks. And on your first day of employment, you’re also issued a corporate e-mail address and a login ID. Your e-mail address is the official address that...
Is Apple Gunning for the Enterprise?
Don’t blink. Did you blink? If you did, you might have missed it. Missed what, you ask? Apple, the embodiment of the high tech “rebel alliance” might have just become the new “empire”. In non-sci fi geek terminology, it appears that Apple is positioning itself to...
The IT Vacuum Problem
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. – John Donne Thanks to Information Technology, I’ve built a successful professional software engineering career that pays well and keeps me eternally engaged. I’m...
The API Manifesto Success Story
In 2002, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, issued a now-famous company-wide mandate to his entire IT organization… a sort of digital 10 commandments for the 21st century (okay, Bezos really only gave FIVE commandments, but hey! It’s the 21st century, things move faster now!)...
How To Repeal and Replace Legacy Code
Every software developer on the planet, sooner or later, comes across legacy code. Legacy code is pretty much what it sounds like … it’s source code for an application that was probably first created long before the current software engineer inherits the application....