Category: machine-learning

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave complete their article about introducing seams into mainframe systems by looking how we can use data replication. Done well, it can provide a rapid start…

Mainframe processing is often organized into pipelines of batch processes consuming and creating data files. Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave show a couple of ways they found to introduce seams…

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave move on to analyzing the internal seams of the application by treating the database as a coarse-grained seam. They describe how they introduced seams into…

As the enmuskification of Twitter continues, I’ve increasingly heard that more people are using LinkedIn to keep up with new professional material. So, a couple of weeks ago, I set…

John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64. more… Source: martinfowler

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output…

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond…

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond…

From time to time people ask me for a copy of the code I used in the opening chapter of Refactoring, so they can follow along themselves. I had Reasons…

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran continue their discussion on using qualitative metrics to assess the productivity of development teams. In this installment they classify qualitative metrics into attitudinal and behavioral…