I find that the problem with meetings is that the level of information available before hand is often lacking.

A clear agenda and desired completion criteria should be a pre-requisite.

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Many of our applications are put in Docker containers.  These containers are scanned using Trivy , which catches a frightening number of items.  We also use scanners on our...

Turns out this has been quite a good prediction.

The charge back system could have an unfortunate affect on corporate behaviours.  If a server was bought for a use case isolated...

Rod, are you able to give some details as to what went wrong and why the switch to cloud was unsuccessful?  It would be useful to compare notes.

In AWS there...

I think the cloud will keep you in editorials until you decide to stop.

What I've learned is that the tech debt a company carries can block a lift and shift.

Taking...

I've just been on a website trying to book a return flight from Manchester to Belgrade.

The problem is that someone set the outbound and return calendars so if you update...

I am shocked by the number of developers who are resistant to learning SQL.  It if was a musical instrument it would be a piano.  Everyone can play chopsticks, many...

No matter what shape the messaging technology it is the curation of the messages and channels(or equivalent) by which it lives and dies.  This is a recurring theme for both...

I didn't realise how good SQLBits was until I was sent to a few other events.  QCon is another good one but you need a decent budget to go to...

The 1st time I came across imposter syndrome was in the context of the  Dunning-Kruger Effect.  I think every normal person suffers from it to some degree or another.

There...

Perhaps the other thing we should consider is recruitment and retention of staff.

How do you recruit someone to maintain old tech?

I'm in my last 10 years now but, if anything,...

I change my car when it wears out, so every 10-15 years.  The improvement over 10 years is huge.

My son and I bought a 20 year old Toyota Celica.  Fantastic...

Exactly this!

I took a promotion from Lead DBA to Data Architect.  As a hands-off role it wasn't good for me but did bring a decent salary (found out later I...

I think Microsoft should look at what Snowflake have done regarding importing/exporting data to "stages".  A stage being an area either internal or external to the DB on which files...

Being polite, respectful yet determined to ensure things get done is a difficult balance.

As George Bernard Shaw put it "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one...