As I take a saunter in the technology landscape, I get to look at the inner workings of many software juggernauts – gigantic companies with multiple products and support for a myriad lines of business. I find them all exhibiting similar traits as they transition from a small company with a focussed line of business [...]

It has become anathema to write Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements in application programs. For instance, it is frowned upon if we write programs that alter a table to add a new column or create an index dynamically. The only exceptions to this dictum would be programs that actually are supposed to create or alter [...]

Even code geeks know that a company needs a business model to survive. A busines model tells you about why the company exists, what does it do and how it makes its money. Traditionally, a business model was combined with the revenue model i.e. it has to talk not only about what the business does [...]

There was a lady in one of the companies that I had worked for. She was doing, what is probably the most routine of jobs. She works evening shifts. Her chief duty was to trigger the build job in the night and notify us if anything goes wrong with it. We used to call her [...]