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...

I'm not good with time management.  No matter what I am doing I feel I should be doing something else.  This means that I am easily distracted.  The feeling that...

We used to dread environment rebuilds.  Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.

We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but are...

In cycling terms there are two terms of disparagement

• All the gear and no idea
• £3K bike, 30 pence legs

In DevOps terms you can have the best software, the most...

To shift everything into the cloud you have to address all those bits of legacy pipework you have in your systems.  You have to understand all those strange data flows...

We have to conduct an annual GDPR audit.  We've found it far easier to make adjusting the GDPR documentation part of the software development lifecycle than trying to perform an...