I think your point about humans needing a change of pace rings true.

I know it sounds daft but I used to enjoy the excitement that surrounded a major release.  The...

Imagine that you are the CEO of a major corporation listed on the stock exchange.  With your mega-salary comes mega-responsibility and visibility in the public eye.  At this level the...

Steve,

I'm remembering your SQL Server running on Linux April Fool.

I'm also mindful of the GraphDB extensions, the XML extensions and the JSON extensions in SQL Server.

"We seem to be spending more than we expected to" seems to be a familiar cloud refrain.

The approach we take to being able to dice/slice costs is to have a...

https://dora.dev/

Dr Nicole Forsgren wrote Accelerate which explains the science behind the 4 DORA...

I notice that this year's DORA report is explicit in calling out the availability of quality documentation as being a significant factor in high performing teams.

I notice that Pragmatic Works...

Redgate tools have always been great tools at a reasonable price.  The company I used to work for decided to move away from Microsoft and I'd say one of the...

There's an element of cargo cult and John Frumism with regard to DevOps and the same is true of Agile development too.  The performance of rituals is...

I read a wonderful book "A man called Ove" filmed as "A man called Otto" starring Tom Hanks.  Read the book.  Ove is the GOAT of cranky curmudgeons.  The start...

Where I work, we have an overwhelming amount of technical debt. Most of it involves the application being built so many years ago that the platform it was built...

At the start of the pandemic, we migrated some of our apps to the cloud. But because they're all monolithic apps, they're not "cloud ready". So, this is more...

For AWS there is a Well Architected Framework (WAF) course and assessment test that results in a certificate.  It wasn't a proctored test, more of a check point for you...

I've been part of a number of complete rewrites and re-platformings.  If you are moving to the cloud then make sure that everyone involved in the project has read at...

One of the tenets of agile development is that the team should be able to sustain the development pace indefinitely.

The important question for both employee and employer has to be...

People have different learning styles so finding training that matches your particular style requires some effort.

One of my ex-colleagues used to run lunch and learn sessions.  He had a knack...