Given Michael Stonebraker's impact on the database world I am curious about  VoltDB.

Having used Vertica and AWS RedShift for data warehousing I have to say that there is always...

I read about an experimental language where you designed a software "gene" that would evolve to do a set task. The language was fiendishly complicated so didn't catch on.

The story...

We have regular virtual floor briefs where the CEO and at least one other board member tells us what we are doing, how we are doing and various other points...

I've told the story before about my 1st boss losing all his edits on an important document.  As a speed typer there were a few expletives muttered and he started...

The main challenge is when a company adopts a new technology how to address things you learn when a group of you can just huddle and work through each other's...

I find Jeff Moden's saying fits well with this topic. Change is inevitable, change for the better is not.

I've found that the adoption of some cutting edge technology generates a...

There have been a lot of data breaches due to unsecured ElasticSearch clusters. Whether these are default credentials or no credentials whatsoever I'm not sure.

We have various webhooks to reject...

One challenge I find is trying to get into the mindset of a person who does not observe rules, protocols and behaviours.

It cuts both ways.  Someone who doesn't observe rules,...

Last year my company set a number of OKRs (Objective, Key result) across the organisation. Those of us in leadership roles had to assign ourselves OKRs aligned with those.

I chose...

Assuming COVID becomes a non-issue I'd say hybrid office work would suit me.  Many of the people I work with are in a completely different office to me anyway so...

One place I worked took https://sfia-online.org/en as the base and pruned it back to suit the organisation.

As managers we spent a lot of time mapping the skills needed for a...

I like idea of parallelism and also the on_success, on_complete, on_fail options

Just as Microsoft looked at its competitors when it incorporated column store tech I think it should look at...

We call it sneaking quality into the deliverables

The goal is to get control of my financial assets so apart from direct access I would say Insurance details.

Home insurance reveals if your house is worth burgarling and how...

The first thing I think of is profiling and extended event type activity.  If everything is encrypted in flight, at rest etc then what is the mechanism for legitimate 3rd...