WS DevCon: Steve Lougharn: When web services go bad

Steve was fabulous! He and Clemens share my prize for most entertaining speakers!

In a well-prepared presentation Steve showed what it takes to roll out a large-scale commercial web service.  As expected, in large-scale systems web services don?t really make life easier. This stuff is hard by definition.

 

Steve offered advice regarding keeping healthy development environment for such projects such as:

-          No barriers between r&d and operations

-          Deploy early and often

-          Operations tasks should be described as use cases

-          Track operations issues as defects

-          Instrument the code

Not surprisingly, most of the points are similar for a ?conventional? large-scale software project.