Windows registry performance in multithreading

Submitted by st on Sat, 19/01/2019 - 15:44

The Windows registry (WR) is a NoSQL DBMS based on a semi-structured hierarchical data model. Unlike configuration files approach, WR:

Testing

Agile or not agile

Submitted by st on Tue, 04/12/2018 - 15:59

Bertrand Meyer's article "Making sense of agile methods" (PDF, November 2017)
Russian translation published in "Open systems" magazine N°2-2018 "Об Agile по гамбургскому счету"

Some citations (I completely agree according to my experience).

Everything will look fine until you suddenly discover that the next user story conflicts with previously implemented ones, and you have to go back and rethink everything

Process

Agile

C++11 containers: move semantic vs pointers

Submitted by st on Thu, 22/11/2018 - 13:34

Motivation

C++11 has introduced the move semantic which can also be used in containers instead of "old-school" pointers. The specific containers owning objects has been proposed earlier by third-party libraries like Boost (for example, ptr_map or ptr_vector).