Over the past two years Jama Software has taken steps to make pair-programming a greater part of our engineering culture. Our product-development organization produces software according to the Agile Software Development framework of Scrum, with regular iterations, and self-organizing teams. Within the agile principle of incremental refinement, we have continued to adopt practices that help us produce quality […]
While there is plenty of excellent material out there about Docker, the bi-weekly lightning talks that we do in Engineering are a good opportunity to bring some basic information about this awesome technology in front of engineers in our team that would otherwise not easily be exposed to it (for instance because they mostly work […]
“At UltraLinq Healthcare Solutions, our software is considered a medical device by many regulatory bodies throughout the globe. Having the ability to automatically trace requirements through the system development life cycle is not a nice to have but paramount to our continued success and keeping our regulatory status. Jama Software is the tool we chose because […]
A Powerful Code Transformation Tool Imagine finding a hidden feature in your IDE that magically transforms code. This is how it would work: you load a piece of source code into your window, and as you read through it, line by line, the code becomes cleaner, clearer, and well-factored. That would be amazing. I’m here […]
At Jama we have migrated lots of functionally from Chef to Docker. Maybe that sounds a little odd? At first glance Chef and Docker don’t overlap much in functionality. But, as we develop our system with Docker, we constantly find ourselves referring to our Chef code for reference and as we implement new work in […]
As the Release Manager at Jama, I feel compelled to write about this topic because although much of the release process at Jama currently requires a lot of human involvement and manual action, one of Jama’s Engineering goals is to move closer to Continuous Delivery of our software. I’ve been forced to ask myself whether […]
Recently, we have worked on trouble-shooting SQL server performance issues for some of our large customers that run SQL server as their database. In this article, I will summarize what I have learned from the process by describing some steps we can take to trouble-shoot performance issue. Check SQL Server Configuration Make sure the database server […]
Now that all of that left-pad nonsense is behind us, we can get back to focusing on the business of utilizing node modules, or more specifically, how to upgrade our node packages in a safe, verifiable, refactory way (as refactory as Javascript lets us get, anyway). The Problem Recently, I was tasked with bringing our […]
Java developers need to monitor and trouble-shoot Java applications from time to time. It’s usually straightforward to do that if an applications is running as a Java processes on your local machine. But when the Java application runs inside a Docker container on a Docker host, it becomes challenging to monitor them using tools running […]
In the beginning, there is a simple code base written by a few developers. The code’s deficiencies are easily kept in the brains of developers creating it and they most likely know what needs to be fixed and were trouble can be found. Then the code grows, more developers are hired, features are added, and […]
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