Maciej kiciak

Deriving good performance is about more than careful design. It may be surprising, but the art of application performance starts when there is not even a single line of code. It all starts with the requirements and the goal of the system. Below is a short summary of key points for deriving a good design and mitigating performance bottlenecks risks. 1. Ask performance related questions very early. When I meet business people they know what they want, at least from the functional point of view. However, when I ask them about the forecasted number of transactions per second or number of user operations (or any other performance related quality of the system) I rarely hear a reasonable response. It's either unknown or totally trumps up. This is due to the fact, that in many project approaches (waterfall, iterative, etc.) technical people focus on familiar artifacts and ... (more)

Webinar on online sales tax and legal issues is coming

eTaildTail and Avalara announces to deliver a free webinar fot those who use ecommerce in their day to day life and wish to stay out of legal troubles. It sounds interesting as many federal regulations don't correspond with the reality of the ecommerce market.The webinar will take place on March 4th, 2009. For more details please visit the eTaildTail article. ... (more)

ATG Webinar on Global Ecommerce

ATG brings another comprehensive webinar on expanding ecommerce opportunities for global companies. Topics covered: global and local ecommerce market perspectives, the Philips use case and internationalization challenges. For those interested in extending globally in the ecommerce area You are welcomed to view archived version of the webinar. Some key points of the presentation include: Ecommerce perspectives and opportunities from the global perspective Growth and profitability increase lessons from past Various technology options Internatinalization appraches - centralized vs l... (more)