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The Problem with Software. Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code.
By Adam Barr Crosslake Principal Software Engineer, Adam Barr, publishes a book on Software Engineering. “The book covers the last 50 years of ‘software…
Quality
Less UI Automation, More Quality
Have you ever thought, “Creating and maintaining all this UI automation is taking a huge amount of my team’s time? I’ll bet we could…
Private Equity Industry
How to Measure R&D Effectiveness When You are Not Technical
At Crosslake, we often get asked by people that do not have a deep technical background, “How do I measure the effectiveness of our…
Cloud
Will This Scale–Part 2–Evaluating Infrastructure for Scalability
In Part 1 of this post, “scalability” was defined and scalability issues with the software itself were described. In Part 2, we look at…
Architecture
Will This Scale–Part 1–Evaluating Software Architecture for Scalability
Perhaps the most common question we get at Crosslake when performing technical due diligence on a company is, “Will this thing scale?” After all,…
Financial Industry
Collaborating to Deliver Open-Source Software For Digital Payment Systems to Benefit the Poor
Those of us in developed countries have difficulty imagining what it’s like not to have access to a bank account or the other benefits…
Scaled Agile
How To Structure an Agile Software Development Contract
How do you structure a contract for the development of software in a world that has learned valuable lessons from waterfall? It’s a challenge.…
DevOps
Using Docker Containers For Microservices
This article gives insight and analysis regarding container usage for dev pipeline of a software product built using microservices architecture. Innovative businesses are using…