Rod, I use Visual Studio code...

There's also YAGNI (You Ain't Going To...

Kelsey Hightower had a few posts on Twitter championing monoliths.  Given that he was a Google Distinguished Engineer this seemed out-of-step with prevalent thoughts on cloud architecture.  However the more...

To be fair to Brent his time, as a consultant, would not be time well spent cleaning up a client's code base.

When I'm analysing an old code base for a...

Good question.

I had a storage problem with a data warehouse and needed to remove some data.  I went to the various users of the warehouse to find out what could...

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...