When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference, one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a lot in their day job, often to complete tasks that they would have struggled to work on in the past, mostly because of time constraints, but also a lack […]
2026-01-16
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Refactoring code is a common task in many software development teams. Steve asks if this is something common for database developers as well.
2025-12-12
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Getting something done is important, but so is the quality level. Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-11-26
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Adopting a modern development approach brings with it the need to manage PRs, which Steve thinks can be like trouble tickets.
2025-10-01
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Steve found someone using an interesting approach to get developers to address some technical debt.
2025-09-08
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Technical debt is something all of us deal with in our systems, and today Steve has a few thoughts on the impact of debt on database sysstems.
2025-06-25
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If you have had to fix the thing you just fixed with a fix, you might enjoy today's editorial.
2025-06-16
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Steve looks back at the Mythical Man Month, a book every software engineer and manager should read.
2025-06-06
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Today Steve is wondering how you approach coordinating application and database changes. Share which one you deploy first.
2025-04-16
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Feature flags are being used in modern software development. Steve thinks these should also be a staple of database changes.
2025-04-07
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By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
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