Un-Answered Questions { Embedded Systems }

What value do daily builds, automated testing, and peer reviews add to a project? What disadvantages are there?

470


Describe a pattern that is not the factory pattern? How is it used and when?

450


Describe the structure and contents of a design document, or a set of design documents, for a multi-tiered web application.

473


Why is the single responsibility principle important?

473


If your database was under a lot of strain, what are the first few things you might consider to speed it up?

467


What do you do to stay abreast of the latest technologies and tools?

476


Explain the concept of convention over configuration, and talk about an example of convention over configuration you have seen in the wild.

407


Whose blogs or podcasts do you follow? Do you blog or podcast?

420


How do you identify hardware errors?

483


How can you optimize the i/o performance?

455


What trade offs do you have for resource contention?

473


How can you stop your dba from making off with a list of your users’ passwords?

602


Can you name any code testing tools?

501


Left to your own devices, what would you create?

415


How can you reduce memory requirements in embedded systems?

489