I use virtual box and VMWare as some vendors (such as Teradata) supply virtual machines preconfigured.  Hortonworks and Cloudera both supplied their entire stacks as a VM.

I've had a few...

Those are incredibly important points.  Let us suppose that I have a product catalogue in a database and an external actor gains read access to that database.  The data they...

I'm seeing an increasing use of serverless technologies and managed services.  Why nurse maid a Zookeeper and Kafka combination when you can use a managed Kafka instance?

ETL solutions such as...

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Arnaud, how are you testing your app at present?  Do you have a unit testing approach to the non-SQL parts of your C# app?

A hard lesson I learned is that an environment building from scripts has to be damn careful where it pulls its software from.  You need a local repository where there...

I've had to live with several different software packages that have gone out-of-support.  You can get away with it for ages.  Emphasis on "getting away with it".

The problem comes is...

There is a difference between telling and selling.  You can tell people until you are blue in the face and no matter how right you may be that is no...

Corey, you may want to take a look at https://www.sqlsharp.com/ by Solomon Rutzky.

I think Steve is right.  It's time to replace FTS.  I did an experiment to try and get...

No system or approach is infallible.  I'll give an example of my latest mistake.

I write tests for the outcomes that are mandated by requirements.  I also write tests to check...

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This is following a trend.  At both the AWS RE:Invent and Microsoft Ignite,  Snowflake DB played a prominent role.

Similarly we have Vertica runing in EON Mode.

The local caching...

Where I work the dashboards and performance metrics for production applications and infrastructure is available to all in all environments.

Being told something is one thing.  Being shown is another thing...

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You need three things to be happy in life

• To feel you are achieving something
• To feel that what you achieving is worth while
• To feel that what you are...

I think it is good to call out the human side.  An awful lot has been written about Agile and DevOps, not all of it what was intended by the...

I've just had to reset my works password.  That's a day of my life I won't get back, not made easier because the password change is asynchronous.

To be brutally honest...

I find questions like that are usually conversation starters rather than an expression of true interest.

In IT = Well paid, probably intelligent but boring.  Best to gloss over it and...