Comments on: Thinkers should Do, too http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/03/17/thinkers-should-do-too/ Software, Agile Process and Security Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:38:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keith McMillan http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/03/17/thinkers-should-do-too/comment-page-1/#comment-4608 Keith McMillan Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:40:50 +0000 http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=182#comment-4608 You raise another interesting point. How sure can you be that you've provided the best balance of flexibility, performance and scalability if all you do is deal in whiteboard designs? I certainly can't... In $VBC's case, did they ever determine what caused the performance degradation? Just plain old poorly optimized database? You raise another interesting point. How sure can you be that you’ve provided the best balance of flexibility, performance and scalability if all you do is deal in whiteboard designs? I certainly can’t…

In $VBC’s case, did they ever determine what caused the performance degradation? Just plain old poorly optimized database?

]]> By: Peter Coffin http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/03/17/thinkers-should-do-too/comment-page-1/#comment-4607 Peter Coffin Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:28:25 +0000 http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=182#comment-4607 About a decade ago, $VBC had a CRM database designed, with all of the best practices anyone could think of, from the top down, data normalized out to like fifth form, flexible and expandable. They wrote all the software, installed it on some fearsomely-powerful hardware, and started loading data. They loaded 300,000 business entity records the first hour, 100,000 the second, and by end of the fourth hour, it was loading a couple of records per minute and starting to really bog down. And that was the end of that project. About a decade ago, $VBC had a CRM database designed, with all of the best practices anyone could think of, from the top down, data normalized out to like fifth form, flexible and expandable. They wrote all the software, installed it on some fearsomely-powerful hardware, and started loading data. They loaded 300,000 business entity records the first hour, 100,000 the second, and by end of the fourth hour, it was loading a couple of records per minute and starting to really bog down. And that was the end of that project.

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