I'm not concerned about the formatting either.  I'm interested in understanding what the JSON documents represent.  If I have to ingest JSON documents and their...

Personally, when I design something new, then yes, I produce a logical model.  When I inherit something, I'll look at the physical model and do the best I can.

What I...

Since I wrote the original draft, I put the idea to our COO.  They have started to build a program of "Understanding our business" training.  I wasn't expecting such a...

I've just read a book called "There is no Planet B" by Mike Berners Lee.  He makes a similar point about energy-efficiency schemes.  The gist was that if you make...

Back in 2014 I went to QCon in London.  MongoDb (the 10Gen) had a presenter who said the data modelling is MORE important in the NOSQL world, not less.  He...

Some years ago, I was told on a Friday afternoon that a bunch of college graduates were joining us on Monday.  I was voluntold that I was assigned one of...

I think this article is a prompt to review a lot of things we have learned as "received wisdom".

I inherited a process for rolling back a failed data load for...

Of course, Windows NT didn't mean Windows New Technology.

I use Docker containers where only one version of a container can be tagged with latest.  By convention, latest means exactly what...

Your "by yourself" point is important.  If an improvement relies on others, I focus on what is in it for them and what it will cost them.

Cost includes time, money,...

What I hate is when someone needs to be fired and the company won't let them go. A while back I worked for a company that was 24/7 in...

Occasionally our GitHub workflow based CI/CD pipeline would hit the default AWS resource quota for VPCs.  The Terraform teardown process was blocked as some components in the VPC have to...

There is a conflict between people doing the reviews and people requiring the reviews.  They interrupt the flow.

I would prefer a PR that is small and focused, but that requires...

Working for a consultancy means I must keep my certifications up to date.  Pressures of work often mean that I am not in the frame of mind to absorb what...

I've volunteered to be a guest speaker at the Architecting Manchester meetup this Thursday.  My talk is called "PebbleOps: A Mission to Remove the Small Stuff That Slows Us Down".

I've...

I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.  I shared a link to his "Two stops short of Dagenham" article earlier this week as one of my favourite IT stories.