We previously reported on a broad range of issues that can be caused by using the System Migration function to move from a PowerPC-based Mac OS X system to an Intel-based Mac OS X system [see articles ...

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 average software application depends on more than 500 open source libraries and components, up 77% from 298 dependencies in two years, highlighting the difficulty of tracking the vulnerabilities ...

A three-shift plant had roll-up doors to the loading dock. The plant manager asked the maintenance manager with responsibility for the loading area about those doors. Never any problem, the doors have ...

We continue to report on sluggish performance exhibited by virtually all of Adobe's Creative Suite 2 (CS2) applications, including Illustrator, Photoshop, GoLive and InDesign. The most affected tool ...

Lock contention issues can be frustrating problems to investigate and debug. But anytime a database system is involved, the potential exists for locking to cause concurrency problems. Before blaming ...