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Really good editorial!
I listened to a lecture on the insurance industry where the speaker said that when you buy insurance you are really paying for someone else to bear the...
August 30, 2021 at 10:34 am
If you have to make multiple changes per week on a regular basis, never mind multiple changes per day, there is something seriously wrong with your evaluation, design, coding,...
August 27, 2021 at 8:05 am
Cloud vendors have their own logging solutions and means to query those logs, even if that is providing a transparent means of querying using one of their data technologies.
One thing...
August 26, 2021 at 7:42 am
I'd be curious to know if what you see in an organisation is a single organisational attitude to IT or something more nuanced?
I read Ronald Damhoff's work on data quadrants...
August 16, 2021 at 10:07 am
Applying service packs used to be a process that was weeks in planning and rehearsing.
The number and sophistication of hostile actors these days results in pressure to patch frequently and...
July 23, 2021 at 8:09 am
Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.
There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.
Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an...
July 19, 2021 at 9:13 pm
As the Rush lyric goes "you're only immortal for a limited time".
A few months ago I was talking with a friend who was trying to tell his wife that they...
July 18, 2021 at 12:12 pm
There's a tendency for the % missing skills to be off-putting at a lower figure for women than it is for men.
We spent a lot of time focussing on the...
July 16, 2021 at 3:53 pm
In my organisation, regardless of whether it is web development, data engineering, DBAs, Data Analysts, Data Scientists everything gets put under a git compatible source control repositories.
Those repositories are viewable...
July 15, 2021 at 8:38 am
I've used a variety of ETL tools. SSIS is my least favourite by a long way.
There's an article for Python that illustrates why the CSVReader is so complex and it's...
July 14, 2021 at 7:26 am
My Dad is Amazon's greatest fanboy. At 82 the idea that he can order something and get it same day delivery just blows his mind. He can remember having to...
July 12, 2021 at 4:43 pm
The most important step is to understand the point at which you can actually roll back.
I think this is a really important point. That is a step on...
July 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm
The big thing that has changed for me in the past 10 years is the size and nature of the deployments. Project deployments were big things carried out at 2am...
July 7, 2021 at 8:28 am
Another thing I was never able to understand - why index tuning is a job for ops?
they are definitely a part of table design, and changes to it should...
July 2, 2021 at 9:56 pm
I've a goal to get a commit accepted into an open source project.
For me this sets a clear target and a quality gate to reach
July 2, 2021 at 8:31 am
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