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written by gunther gerlach-2011

 

This is a list of the most common mistakes that I have seen again and again along my career in small and large corporations in their intention of implement Agile as the primary development process. I hope while you are reading this, help you to understand what is the logic behind every single practice and try to adapt (shape) to fit into your environment. Remember, the goal is not just follow the best practices but to achieve the goals behind each one. 

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Gunther Gerlach

WRITTEN BY GUNTHER GERLACH-2010

This morning I was in a meeting were the bigest concern was trying to find the way to deploy applications and Web-services to an Enterprise Production Enviroment without outbreak or interruption of the services. This is a pretty big statement in an environment where multiples deployments at different levels happen every day but, there is a way!

When Web-services are running from full tolerance and distributed environments, the options are usually putting down half of the servers by stopping traffic and deploying the updated Web-service then latter switchiing traffic back. The problems with this approach are many, like direct impact on users by latency on the systems, huge conversion when a new service fail or break the environment and, a headache to rollback, among others.

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

This material covers the initial set up of an entire Cloud environment at Amazon Cloud infrastructure to run any web implementation solutions. This is the quickest answer that you may find out there, so let’s stat it!

We will cover all the steps to set up an entire environment in a cloud platform, from creating an user account at Amazon Web Services to creating and customizing Virtual machines (AMI), Virtual Storage Units, Virtual backups, Elastic IP’s, etc.

For all of you that don’t understand some of the acronyms used here, let’s just to look at them before to start:

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

This morning I read from Forbes that online entrepreneurs are flocking to specialized e-commerce sites that connect niche groups of buyers and sellers. From arts-and-crafts site Etsy.com to data-sales specialist Infochimps, experts say the niche sites offer a tailored service and a sense of community that one-size-fits-all online marketplaces like eBay can’t match — and the sheer size of the online population means there’s more than enough customers to keep specialist sites afloat….

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

Customer drives their self by a motivate behaviors at the moment of exercise their power of choosing. Loyalty is not a strong concept for massive retailers like Amazon. Actually is provably true for high end brands and a reduced and selective segment.

So, beside the price factor, what else is trigging customer’s decision at the moment of “choosing” a product or service when comparing similar items?

The answer is simple but the solution is not. A new generation of internet based tools with client side run-time engines need to be created to capture “during the transaction” the critical data exposing what made a customer to choose between two similar products.

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

As you saw during the “Cloud shoot out” celebrated in Washington D.C., most of the attendees were third party technology vendors trying to get part of the $21 Billion budgeted to this transition.

Government goals: They are simple, decrease capital costs and streamline IT infrastructures. While keeping absolute control over security, privacy and trust.

Gunther Gerlach