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.

Some 3rd party libraries and applications are known to be vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks (and other means of attack).

One of the great things about putting apps in Docker containers...

I worked for a company that used to hire senior developers because it was easier to hire at that level than go through the bureaucratic hell of hiring a junior...

One of the things I have to do as a principal data engineer is to help those under me put together career development plans and then find ways to give...

I've known about observability for a while now, but still struggle to get my head around it. Especially how it is different from monitoring. I look forward to this...

At present we use cloud provider specific solutions for logging, metrics and traces.

Our experience with logging lead us to conclude that a lot more thought needs to go into logging.

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Where I have seen EAVs it has been when someone wanted a flexible schema or something that, in 2024, would suggest a use case for a either a document DB...