In the SAP Newsroom blog Jonathan Becher recently posted on the topic "Is Brainstorming Brain Dead?". Brainstorming is a method frequently applied within system and software development projects. Becher claims, the technique of brainstorming has proven to be a failure. By Michael Stal

Last year I was working on building a Solr based log indexing and search. My idea was simple. Write a custom appender, use XML Layout, parse the XML into a Document and use SolrJ to push to Solr. Very soon reality struck me : 1) log4j XML Layout is not a good idea for our requirement. I really dont want to spend time on parsing about 100 XMLs every second. That is a lot of time even...