Technical Articles: Components Suite™

By Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

A new discussion of how structure, behavior, data, and information relate in the database world.

By Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

A discussion of how the need for collaboration doesn't change between Agile software and databases.

by Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

Ruminations on the nature of change in the database world as opposed to in the software world.

By Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

We consider how current testing practices apply to the database world.

By Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

Here we talk about how we should think of database creation. Many of us currently think of it as an operational concern. This can lead to a number of stumbling blocks when attempting to introduce agility...

By Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

In this installment we discuss what I think is one of the most central and least portable practices: evolutionary development. Why is this so important? It's the practice that let's designs emerge. Without the ability to change our design for the better, we have to plan for every kind of variation; if not every variant. Why does it not work with data? Simple: databases don’t evolve.

Author: Max Guernsey, III - Managing Member, Hexagon Software LLC

We cannot simply reapply the Agile practices we have developed for software development to databases. Instead, we need to reduce these practices to their essence - the principles which underly them. From those principles, we can then rebuild practices for databases.

Author: Max Guernsey, III

The basics of test-driven development for databases. It does not directly reference Hexagon Software DataConstructor but everything it discusses can be achieved with DataConstructor.

Author: Max Guernsey, III

This entry explains why immutability is important, even in self-referential graphs, and demonstrates how it can be achieved using Hexagon Software Common Components.