Since I wrote the original draft, I put the idea to our COO.  They have started to build a program of "Understanding our business" training.  I wasn't expecting such a...

I've just read a book called "There is no Planet B" by Mike Berners Lee.  He makes a similar point about energy-efficiency schemes.  The gist was that if you make...

Back in 2014 I went to QCon in London.  MongoDb (the 10Gen) had a presenter who said the data modelling is MORE important in the NOSQL world, not less.  He...

Some years ago, I was told on a Friday afternoon that a bunch of college graduates were joining us on Monday.  I was voluntold that I was assigned one of...

I think this article is a prompt to review a lot of things we have learned as "received wisdom".

I inherited a process for rolling back a failed data load for...

Of course, Windows NT didn't mean Windows New Technology.

I use Docker containers where only one version of a container can be tagged with latest.  By convention, latest means exactly what...

Your "by yourself" point is important.  If an improvement relies on others, I focus on what is in it for them and what it will cost them.

Cost includes time, money,...

What I hate is when someone needs to be fired and the company won't let them go. A while back I worked for a company that was 24/7 in...

Occasionally our GitHub workflow based CI/CD pipeline would hit the default AWS resource quota for VPCs.  The Terraform teardown process was blocked as some components in the VPC have to...

There is a conflict between people doing the reviews and people requiring the reviews.  They interrupt the flow.

I would prefer a PR that is small and focused, but that requires...

Working for a consultancy means I must keep my certifications up to date.  Pressures of work often mean that I am not in the frame of mind to absorb what...

I've volunteered to be a guest speaker at the Architecting Manchester meetup this Thursday.  My talk is called "PebbleOps: A Mission to Remove the Small Stuff That Slows Us Down".

I've...

I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.  I shared a link to his "Two stops short of Dagenham" article earlier this week as one of my favourite IT stories.

Robot originating from the Czech word meaning forced labour, so servant master?

I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service...

So far, it isn't taking my job either because a lot of what I do is working out what people actually mean in their requirements spec and challenging the bits...