My company rents a WeWork office in Manchester(UK).  I've gone in and been the only one there but mostly there are between 3 and 6 people in, sometimes more.

The We...

I get Steve's point of view.  I'm an introvert but I have discovered that I have limits.  It doesn't do me good to be WFH 100%.

My team tend to arrange...

The tip about not working from Slack/Teams/Outlook is gold!

At home I have two monitors plus the laptop screen.  Sometimes the work I do needs those 3 screens and with Slack,...

Ryan,  I came across If this one guy got hit by a bus the worlds software would fall apart. It doesn't mention Redis, but does mention SQLLite...

When I began my journey towards adopting agile and DevOps ways of working it was an absolute nightmare.  Basically DBAs were excluded from the training given to the development teams. ...

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...