Confusing pricing, limited hardware choices, and a feature mix that is different.

The king is dead, long live the king!

I can remember a heated debate about scaling out a DB and the DBA asked "why the hell would I want to scale out for a load this small"?

If your...

My fitness tracking watch varies depending on the amount of exercise I do.  The thing buzzes when you achieve certain goals and also when certain distance units are achieved and...

Professor Goodenough might be of interest.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_battery.

Yes that could happen.  You...

Every now and again one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto will tweet something short and to the point.  Usually I breath a sigh of relief because it realigns...

I've learned that the biggest assumption is that there must be a technical solution.  I've seen a few that look like an attempt to automate the devising of Captain Stupid,...

My company would never do something like this, it is a sad running joke that managers do not learn peoples names in the first three months as the turn...

My organisation does this half yearly.  The aggregate results are available to all and the top 3 and bottom 3 items are emphasized.

The CEO or immediate report runs a monthly...

As I have to work with a number of different DB platforms I use Aquafold DataStudio.  It has the ability to act as an SSH client as well.

I took some...

On the top of every Confluence document I ever write there is a small 2x2 table

• Last Reviewed: The date of review
• Last Reviewer: The hyperlinked name of the reviewer

This...

I feel it is important to understand why the gates exist and just as importantly to determine if the gate can be replaced by a better mechanism.  Test driven development...

I look at what I am saving during lockdown

• £80/week commuting
• Wear and tear on the car.  Mileage down from 25,000/year to a few hundred.
• Not wearing out clothing usually...

I got my Garmin because I got sick of my phone not recording what I was doing on Strava.  To Jeff's point I found that Strava was reducing my enjoyment...

If you halve the number of incidents then you have more than halved the negative impact of those incidents.

When an incident is discovered it has to be logged, diagnosed, prioritised...