For much of my career there has been a dividing line between "the business" and tech.  I have to admit, in my early career I was only interested in tech. ...

To be frank, I don't see NFRs (non-functional requirements) in general given the attention to detail they deserve.

I perceive NFRs as being putting business context & need around what is...

I used to work for an advertising agency.  Various companies offered up their customer lists to non-competitors and allowed various filters to be applied to the selection.  Recency, purchase category...

I think we are near the peak of the hype cycle for AI.

Last week I got something useful out of ChatGPT. I asked it how to do some data manipulation...

I found that building a container to run PostGres was a useful training exercise.  It was hard enough to be interesting but not so hard that I threw the monitor...

I read somewhere that there is a gender behaviour difference when people measure themselves against the requested capabilities for a job.  It was a bit of a generalisation but I...

Whole heartedly agree.  TOGAF used to list a set of architectural principles that included "Controlling the technical complexity".

Ed's comments remind me of Fred P Brooks paper No...

If I knew I needed a regular purge job based on record creation datetime then I would be looking at whether that datetime column should be a candidate for the...

I've used AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) and GCP Pub-Sub.  My company places an emphasis on consuming services rather than administering them.

If we were to use Kafka then we would...

For the 1st time in decades I have been asked about my education for a pitch to a client.

Technically, politically and socially the world is radically different to what it...

I worked on a system that used a machine learning algorithm to make product recommendations.

The person who designed the methodology deliberately introduced a random element to mitigate the problem of...

Mine wasn't a degree, it was a UK HND in Business Information Technology and comprised of 3 modules

• Business Decisions
• Business Policy
• Business Systems

This was in 1985 so PCs weren't...

I remember having an external technical audit carried out on a system intended to become legacy.  Some of the questions posed by the auditor were useful and provided us with...

• In your 20s, cycle to play squash
• In your 30s, cycle or play squash
• In your 40s, cycle
• In your 50s, occasionally cycle, watch squash on the TV
• In...

I wish the original demonstration had been videoed.