DevOps and OSS Can Scale
Microsoft has embraced open source software, and has opened much of their code. They have also proven that DevOps development can scale in this environment.
2019-07-17
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software development
How can we close the tech skills gap?
One of the most profound challenges faced by technology companies today is talent. According to the latest Harvey Nash survey, 65% of CIOs believe that a shortage of tech skills is affecting their ability to respond to change.
2019-06-27
Microsoft, Think DevOps First
Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
2019-06-22
234 reads
Building or Buying Analytics
One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]
2019-06-08
182 reads
The Change Failure Rate
The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.
2019-06-03
422 reads
Enhancing your database development using coding standards
Development and IT departments face increasing demands to deliver changes faster, often with increasing complexity and less tolerance for downtime, and without a corresponding growth in team size to...
2019-05-20
Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
Really Important Software
Software often controls hardware, which can make it the critical part of a system. That's something we should be learning from the Boeing 737-Max crashes.
2019-05-06
222 reads
Can Azure Stack Reduce Software Development Costs?
Azure Stack provides a hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. Steve wonders if this really helps reduce software development costs.
2019-04-24
148 reads
Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 MAX Software Problems
This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read. Technically this is safety and not security; there was no...
2019-04-22
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How I passed the 70-761 certification exam
By DesertDBA
FUN FACT: I have been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server for over...
Azure Storage tips
By James-Serra
As a followup to my blog post Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 is GA,...
Managing Agent Jobs on Availability Group Servers
As always, the scripts in this post can also be found on our Git...
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