The only carrot on my desk as a lowly manager type, with no budget, is the application of sincere praise. If devs need more than that, tough. I mean everyone...

I like the ideas. It's just sounding like a lot.

"Mastering date/time conversions may not feel glamorous, but it’s one of the clearest signs of a seasoned engineer."

Truth.

This is a post I really associate with, since our small company was swallowed up by corporates. Unfortunately no corporate town hall or presentation is permitted to be free from...

If that's a response to my message, please...

I was given the task of migrating an application that hadn't been touched or patched in years.  The app relies on AWS Lambdas written in Python 3.8, and AWS...

We're the opposite of RTO. We've had all leases cancelled on all offices and have none to visit now. It's fine for us seniors who learned our craft with others,...

100%. Something as simple as naming whatever enitities correctly - and then maintaining that naming scheme ruthlessly when things are refactored - can make the difference between being easily navigable...

What you tend to find with this new technology is that the real problems come from something you haven't foreseen. So maybe that's not the worst thing 🫤 We'll see!

I have occasionally wondered if the management of our company is just using AI to interact with us workers. I seem to get the same surprise when I express some...

Does anyone else find that by working out how to articulate the problem in a way that a junior data engineer can understand it, the solution appears naturally out...

It's quite a minor SQL WTF in my opinion - probably doesn't significantly affect performance, just a bit slow and harder to plan. Security wise it would depend on whether...

Containers are great for many situations. They do add many complications and require a certain level of infrastructure to get anywhere at all in terms of serving applications. Also, get...

I can safely say my team's biggest challenges are from internal politics.

a) Trying to poach resource or persuade VPs etc our successful, profitable team that we can work with less...

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Primary keys? What sort of nonsense is that? Next you'll be telling us to put different things in different tables 🤨