Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Dog Food, How Good Is It?

You told us what you’re interested in by questions or topics of interest. Thanks! We want to be as responsive as we can. We got a great list of questions/topics that we have divided them up among our team. As the answers get back to us we will post them…which is also a response to the comment…BLOG MORE OFTEN. Point taken, (with the implied understanding that we do still have to do our “day jobs”).

 

The question was: “Does dogfooding work for you?”

 

You bet it does! It works for us because we architect our systems to provide redundancy for the times we have to take our dogfood systems offline for troubleshooting. Often, we end up achieving better availability in the long term because the dogfood software has fixed some issues that we’re dealing with in the current version. Near the end of the project we also usually experience increased performance on the dogfood systems, which helps in capacity planning for when the software releases. All of this is really just side benefits of our main goal to find bugs in the software and improve quality before the software releases.

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 23, 2006
  Dogfood works for everyone involved.
  
  Product teams like IIS get "real world tested" and validated a lot earlier than the public release, and Microsoft.com has access to the IIS dev team and gets most of the kinks worked out prior to public release.
  
  And you, the customer, just simply benefits... :-)
  
  //David