I've got a sneaking suspicion that the number of fairly modern apps that would run happily on SQL2005 or earlier and not just those who insist on a highest supported...

For me it all boils down to costs.  Any change in licensing comes under the category of "difficult conversation".

The costs in terms of time and effort to upgrade is something...

The ebb and flow of our website traffic is highly variable.  It makes sense for many of the middleware functions to be serverless functions.  The excitement is not about scaling...

We've installed a 3 node porcelain cluster attached to a fibre channel network.

We have determined that extending the paperless office initiative to the bathroom is unacceptable scope creep.

Think of all the millions of man hours that have gone into SQL Server, Oracle, PostGres, MySQL, Teradata, Neteeza etc.  Imagine waking up one morning and thinking that you could...

I know of a system that is still active that allows a £2million revenue stream that runs on an app written in Clipper.  The fundamentals of the business process...

Already moved.  It has been a bit of a journey.

As with many IT innovations phase one is trying to do what you are doing today with new equipment and not...

We went through a formal process to do this to ensure that we knew exactly what GDPR exposure we had.  It took ages because we had undocumented processes that either...

Great Steve. I'll file this next to your previous best April Fool. SQL Server being available on Linux

I think that people take a while to grasp the implications of any technology shift.  Fred P Brooks "There ain't no silver bullet" still holds true.

When VMs came along we...

Trunk based development works well when the deliverable is small incremental pieces of work delivered frequently.  A rigorous set of mechanical tests is also essential.
It works well with stateless...

No Rod, you have it exactly right. You expressed it far better than I did

For me technical debt is putting in place something that will be a pain point that will manifest from early on and which is known to be a pain point...