What Operations Think of Development

Development and Operations are both critical to IS/IT usage in an organization, but operations often look at development as something alien – from another planet (and developers have the same view on operations). Having worked in both development and operations I often claim that development doesn’t know operations and operations doesn’t know development. Let’s have… Continue reading What Operations Think of Development

What Developers Think Of Operations

Development and Operations are both critical to IS/IT usage in an organization, but developers often look at operations as something alien – from another planet (and operations have the same view on developers). Having worked in both development and operations I often claim that development doesn’t know operations and operations doesn’t know development. Let’s have… Continue reading What Developers Think Of Operations

Prevent EF Migrations from Creating or Changing the Database

One of the features of Entity Framework Code First is to automatically create the database on first access. It is a convenient approach in many cases. Unfortunately the applications I work with does not fall into one of those cases. The applications I develop typically run on a dedicated web server, with the database hosted… Continue reading Prevent EF Migrations from Creating or Changing the Database