Over the past decade my role has changed from DBA to Data Engineer.  Put bluntly, I don't think I could manually execute a deployment  of my stack alone, certainly not...

The majority of what I do is in the cloud.  A substantial number of what is exposed to me as data sources is in some form of cloud bucket.

What I...

Admirable restraint there Jeff.  The temptation for "P-Sept" or "P7" must have...

7 years on things have moved on.  Human code reviews are hugely inefficient, inconsistent and prone to errors.

Collaborative design and design reviews are useful because they set you on the...

I'm not worried about AI per se but I am worried the following scenarios

• People using it as a crutch rather than a leg up
• People not realising their responsibilities...

I don't think we'd get an answer from AWS as to how many of the SQL Server RDS's are on Linux.  AWS have their own flavour of Linux too.  For...

The cloud vendors all have their version of the Well Architected Framework.  I recommend that you read about it before you start implementing anything in the cloud.

For a moment I thought this was an editorial for consultants!

We have the Mac/Windows divide which is a bump in the road for thick clients.  For me the beauty of...

Its important to remember that you have to want them, they have to want you.  Just like any other relationship.

In the UK, demand for tech jobs is strong so the...

I'm not sure I agree with the list in the article.  Having seen ChatGPT responses to questions I can see a place for an eternally patient incident management AI trained...

More than a decade ago the company I was working with were trying to adopt DevOps and Agile ways of working.  As a team of DBAs we were wrestling with...

I think Charity Majors at Honeycomb.io is keen on this.

She wrote Database Reliability Engineering and Observability Engineering which are both respected works.

In lower environments you can only test...

With all new technologies I'm conflicted.  I can see so many benefits to autonomous vehicles.  Pre-COVID I would say that my car was in use for only 7% of the...

Another concern is that disabling a sensor could pose a risk to others.

After migrating a massive number of documents for the AAIB and MAIB earlier in my career...

I think where AI helps is as a 2nd pair of eyes when you are coding.  It will question and suggest things that a person would be too embarrassed to...