Software engineering is about solving problems. Every engineer knows the thrill of writing code that just works and resolves a once-intractable problem. The best solutions get used and reused to ...

In the previous instalment of this three part series, I examined the ‘Worker Aggregation’ anti-pattern. I also listed a number of ways to modify it so as to reduce the probability of its ...

Related anti-pattern: firewall implementers who block 53/tcp because they think only DNS zone transfers use TCP and also that allowing zone transfers is bad. Also inhibits purposeful use of TCP for ...

Starvation occurs when one or more threads of execution are prevented from proceeding beyond a given point due to a predicate that will never be satisfied. Deadlock is a special form of starvation ...

A thread for enterprise IT anti-patterns. Open Standards and heterogeneous environments Don't let a cargo-cult reliance on homogeneity blind you to the needs of the enterprise. Needs aren't going to ...