O&B Insights: Software Engineering

February 11, 2026 - Overwhelming evidence shows that fixed-price, fixed-scope contracts fail in software development. I won’t rehash the reasons here, as they’ve been discussed much better elsewhere. Fixed-price...

February 11, 2026 - Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban emerged from the rescue of so called “Death March Projects” – projects that had been failing to deliver results,...

February 11, 2026 - Devs & testers will always debate about whether a bug is really a bug, and such discussions are healthy, up to a point. If these...

February 11, 2026 - I always start my classes with this: It’s called optimization, not minimization or maximization. Why? Because when you make something faster, you’re usually making something...

February 11, 2026 - While, there are a lot of decisions you can make in software development that you can easily change later on, the type of database storage...

February 11, 2026 - The directive has come down from on high: “We need an AI strategy, and we need it yesterday.” The C-suite sees visions of automated revenue...

June 18, 2025 - Manila, Philippines – June 18, 2025 — Orange and Bronze Software Labs (O&B), the Philippines’ premier experts in Java, Cloud, and DevOps solutions for the...

May 13, 2025 - Spring Boot’s Dependency Injection is fundamental to building maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled applications. Among the various injection methods available, constructor injection has emerged as...

April 8, 2025 - Despite women making up a significant portion of the Philippine workforce, a 2023 study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) revealed that women...