https://pietersz.net/categories/technical/ Recent content in Technical on Graeme Pietersz Hugo en-gb Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:30:35 +0000 https://pietersz.net/posts/code-quality-problems/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:30:35 +0000 https://pietersz.net/posts/code-quality-problems/ <p>I am very much an advocates of developing custom systems in pursuit of productivity and competitive advantage, but in this post I am discussing one of the draw backs of doing so. In fact, most businesses rely on custom code in some form or another, but do not really realise it.</p> https://pietersz.net/posts/whats-your-disaster-recover-plan/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 05:01:43 +0100 https://pietersz.net/posts/whats-your-disaster-recover-plan/ <p>A business can be destroyed by losing its data. I have known even losing the data on a single person&rsquo;s hard drive to be very expensive, and losing your servers can be much worse. You need to think about backups, continuity, hardware. I have taken a server out of a bomb blasted building and it worked - but it might not have.</p> https://pietersz.net/posts/technical-debt-from-a-business-perspective/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:41:40 +0100 https://pietersz.net/posts/technical-debt-from-a-business-perspective/ <p>Technical debt tends to be talked about, and worried about, more by developers than by those running a business or looking after its finance. The problem is that not taking it into account <strong>will</strong> lead to bad decisions.</p>