Eli Weinstock-Herman (Tarwn)
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Recent Blog Posts
These are recent blog posts I published at LessThanDot. The full list can be found on the My Posts page.
Meme Monday: My First Blog Post
Denis started us off earlier with his Meme Monday post, "Meme Monday: what is the first blogpost you wrote and when did you write it?".
This is a tricky question for me, mostly because my memory is poor and I'm having difficulty bending google's time search to my will.
...Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width
Several weeks ago I was refreshing my memory on some nvarchar/varchar tradeoffs when I ran into a post by Michael J Swart (blog|twitter) where he shared the results of investigating a performance problem in one of his live environments. After changing many...
Continuous Delivery - Dashboard, QA and Production Deployment
Automating the deployment of software to the various test, QA, and Production environments streamlines the software delivery process, provides a well-practiced routine prior to the production deployment, and removes a lot of the risks that come with depending on people's memories and checklists in order to get a working production push. Automating the deployment also makes the process more repeatable and less prone to error, simplifying the creation or recreation of an environment not just for the current release, but for past releases as well.
This is the final post in a multi-pa...
Continuous Delivery - Adding an Automated Interface Test Stage
Human beings are good at creative tasks. Put an end user in front of an interface and ask them to find an error and good luck stuffing that particular cat back into the bag. Where we don't perform as well is performing those tasks repetitively. After several cycles we begin to lose focus, start listening more to our expectations than what we are actually seeing in front of us, gradually forget steps, or worse lose track and have to restart from the beginning. By automating the redundant tasks, we play to the strengths of the computer and free the human to return to creative duties.
<.../>Continuous Delivery Project - Deploy and Smoke Test
Executing an integration build and unit test run on the build server is all well and good, but before we can say a build is complete and ready to go, it's a good idea to know it will work when it is deployed. Executing a test deployment and then smoke testing it will ensure the archived build is ready to be deployed to test or production environments and that the necessary configurations and resources are available and working.
This is the fifth post in a multi-part series on my Continuous Deployment pipeline project. The
