Category Archives: Technology
Writing Thread-Safe Programs – Analyze Cost of Locking
One way of writing a thread-safe class is to use synchronization when its shared variables are being modified so that a lock is obtained by the executing thread leaving all the other threads in the waiting state to get the … Read More
Business Intelligence for Manufacturing Industry
Business Context
Today manufacturing industry is going through different challenges than a decade ago. Decade ago, we were talking about competition from global players, low cost producers and managing constantly changing customer expectations, our processes and systems. Though they are … Read More
10 things you (probably) want to consider for BI tool selection
In today’s competitive environment, a proper BI solution is a must to have for many organizations. Companies in various industries are implementing BI systems for effective decision making, reducing resources for manual efforts and utilizing them to focus more on … Read More
Considerations for PA-DSS Compliant Solution Development – Part 2
For earlier 9 points kindly refer to my earlier blog at Considerations for PA-DSS Compliant Solution Development – Part 1
- Develop applications based on secure coding guidelines. Prevent common coding vulnerabilities in software development processes, to include the following:
a.
Writing Thread-Safe Programs Using Atomic Variables
Race condition never occurs in a thread-safe program. What is a race condition? When variables are shared by multiple threads, there is a possibility that more than one thread get access to a variable and try to modify its … Read More