My favorite type of onsite meetings are those where I help to solve a major problem. A couple of days ago I was visiting a large online gaming company. Most of what they do revolves around a web-based ...

TikTok faced a brief global outage on January 25, 2026, but services were restored within hours.

The server-side architecture of an application can have a significant impact on how well the application performs. I’ve seen examples where an application server had to make queries against a database ...

The endless catalog of IT failure rests on a foundation of poor judgment, inadequate communication across business groups and information silos, and conflicting agendas. Most of my blogging discusses ...

Cloud-based applications have revolutionized the way we do business: they make doing business more convenient for customers and more efficient for companies. Yet, cloud-based service applications may ...