I worked for a documentation company that used Content Management Systems to build web sites.

The vendor documentation was so poor we ended up overusing the component that allowed us to...

Sadly Jeff I share your experience

Strangely enough my team have had an internal debate as to where to put documentation. After discussion we came to a few conclusions

• If the...

My company recognised that different people have different needs. There is not a one size fits all anymore.

Many of my colleagues are at a life stage where working from home...

Our security folk have a mantra, triple A, P.

• Authentication = Login
• Authorisation = What that login is allowed to do
• Auditing  = What that login tries to do, permissions/membership...

It's not so much tracking down and fixing a bug that does it for me as removing an annoyance and/or distraction.

Simply being able to decide for myself to fix a...

For a cloud vendor contributing back to the root project totally makes sense otherwise you'd have to reapply your fix every time there was an OS update. Also if you...

The whole point of DevOps is that it isn't a project, it isn't a team, it is a way of working and a culture.

Culture changes are the hardest to implement. ...

Startups are reluctant to pay for hosting that much data as they will have only after 2 or more years. May be. If it all goes right. Therefore -...

Speaking with friends who are ex-colleagues and also reading a fair number of IT/Business books I think there is a lot more commonality than would sit easily with senior egos.

I...

I wouldn't say imposter exactly. I think a certain level of anxiety is present.  Having worked hard to acquire expertise in one area I want to perform at that level...

We build a container of our data warehouse containing a subset of data which all developers can use for data engineering work.

It means that they can work on their local...

Depending on where your Python app resides you can get away with not using the access key/secret key.  If you have an EC2 instance then you can use client.assume_role to...

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...