An anecdote that an engineer shared with me recently reminded me of a
long-standing concept in manufacturing, design for production (DFP).
The concept has to do with evaluating how a given operation - production
line, supply chain, or an entire factory - is performing. DFP ratings are
supposed to help product development teams pinpoint bottlenecks and decide
what steps might be needed to raise productivity and profitability. DSP isn't
something you hear very often in the application delivery space, but it is
interesting to imagine what criteria would provide a holistic assessment of
how the application life cycle is working, and help determine what tools or
processes might improve the process.
The anecdote concerned a large shipping/logistics company, where the engineer
had been involved in the final delivery of new and re-worked WebLogic
applications to production.... (more)
In the coming months, hundreds of corporations will migrate thousands of
applications from the WebSphere 4.x platform to WebSphere 5.0. The reasons
for doing so are both many and compelling, not the least of which is that
support for the WebSphere 4.x platform will cease to exist in a matter of
months.
However, beyond that practical reason, WebSphere 5.0 provides a giant leap in
flexibility, functionality, scalability, and expandability with its new
distributed architecture. This makes it well worth their while for most
companies to upgrade. However, upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 ha... (more)
Any developer or IT organization can attest to the fact that flawless
application development does not ensure flawless deployment when the time
comes to roll the application out across a WebLogic application server.
Successful deployment requires that application configurations in the IT
infrastructure stack be correctly dialed for the application to run properly.
Unfortunately for IT organizations, proper application configurations are
often lost in translation (or fall victim to human error) between development
and production. The result can be slow deployment or application dow... (more)
Raman Sud is the vice president of engineering for mValent, developer of mValent Integrity. Sud has 20 years of experience delivering mission-critical software for enterprises and telecommunication service providers leveraging distributed development and building integrated teams in the US and India.
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