Highly-Effective Leaders

(May-2010) Entrepreneurial Spirit

The internet entrepreneur’s struggle to effectively prepare and seize the right opportunities.

1. Introduction
2. Preparation
3. Opportunity

High-Performance Computing

(June-2009) Challenges in Multi-Core Era

A look at the continuing concurrency challenges spanning microprocessors, operating systems and development platforms.

1. Microprocessors
2. Operating Systems
3. Programming Languages

(March-2008) Uncovering Time in the Financial Markets

The industry’s sensitivity to milliseconds and microseconds is unprecedented.

1. Introduction
2. Law & Profit
3. Time of the Trade
4. Precision & Accuracy

(Feb-2008) Designing for Performance on Wall Street

An introduction to the design-elements solving Wall Street’s problem of escalating message volumes, millisecond electronic trading transactions, and the need to store it all.

1. Introduction
2. Bandwidth Problem
3. Need for Speed
4. Storage Dilemma

(Dec-2007) Measuring Latency in Messaging Systems

A close look at the components of end-to-end message latency.

1. Introduction
2. Packetization Delay
3. Serialization Delay
4. Propagation Delay
5. Bringing it All Together

Highly-Productive Teams

(December 2009) People Narrative

The talents which influence our individual and team performance.

(June-2009) Leap Forward with Rails

A programmer shares his first impressions working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

1. Introduction

(January-2009) Moving People Around

A look at the challenges and opportunities that result from agile’s practice of moving people around.

(October-2008) Agile on Wall Street

How Agile development approaches help an industry with an intense focus on non-functional requirements.

(Sept-2008) Standing Up For Agile

Summarizing the early success of Agile methodologies and how they can address future challenges.

1. Introduction
2. Continuous Change
3. People, Process, and Technology

(May-2008) Challenges Facing Teleworkers

A close look at the challenges facing telecommuting or teleworking professionals.

(Jan-2008) Challenges Facing Virtual Teams

A close look at the challenges facing remote or distributed teams.

High-Quality Software

(July 2009) Is BDD a Solution to the Tester’s Dilemma?

A tester proposes one solution to the Tester’ s Dilemma.

(March 2009) Tester’s Dilemma

A tester ponders how best to add value in the agile software development lifecycle.

Highly-Profitable Technology Projects

(July 2008) Clarifying Requirements

Clarifying the relationship between needs, features and requirements.

1. User Needs
2. Features
3. Validation vs. Verification