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...

I have kept an eye on https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

There are a few things to note

• The rapid tail off in the rankings as you progress down the list
• The...

I think it is important that juniors see seniors own up to mistakes, especially the embarrassing ones.  Lead by example.

The important thing is defining what the limits of what the BOT is allowed to do.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

Recruitment is a challenging occupation.  I've had candidates that were good on paper, interviewed well, passed recruitment tests but when they got the job their doppelganger turned up for work.

I've...

This is analogous to the increasing use of ML in the insurance industry to spot fraud.  The chances are there are a large suite of existing rules that have accumulated...

I do have a question though. In the jobs section, the "Check Pull Request Labels" has a runs-on: ubuntu-latest and then immediately afterwards in "Enable Auto Merge on PR"...