We are often asked: “How can online stores best deal with peak sales periods?" Perhaps the most important part of coping with peak is good preparation, in good time.
Non-functional requirements define the quality of a solution that is to be delivered by either an internal delivery team or a third party. This is crucial to ensure that an organisation gets a product that is of a...
On Thursday 4th February 2016, West Ham United Football Club's official ticketing system, http://www.whufcboxoffice.com, was displaying the following queuing page to visitors:
If you have some form of user response time monitoring in place for your website you may often see step changes in response times. Perhaps by a few seconds, maybe by more. Here’s a real world example:
Hardly a week passes without another major online brand suffering from cyber-attacks of one form or another, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks becoming more and more common. Last Friday HSBC’s online...
‘Move fast and break things’ is a development mantra popularised by Facebook and picked up with enthusiasm by software development teams both small and large. The idea is that if you aren’t breaking things you’re...
