I've been acting as a accidental/part-time cloud engineer.

The common theme from when I was and accidental/part-time DBA is that the work ebbs and flows at different layers in the tech...

Infrastructure as Code.  Basically, you sell your soul to the Devil and are forever tortured by Terraform or something worse

I don't know if it is a valid use of feature flags so bear with me.

Most of our infrastructure is IAC delivered by a pipeline.  That pipeline takes about 20...

The Oracle CREATE DOMAIN looks really interesting.

If you are familiar with the dunder functions in Python it looks like the DISPLAY clause the equivalent of Python's __repr__.  For non-Python people,...

I've found that smaller releases at more frequent intervals is more reliable and is far easier to co-ordinate with other initiatives that are going on within an organisation.

In the old...

I see Bill Gates is saying that we'll be down to a 2 day week within 10 years and almost all jobs will be eliminated.

I have a friend whose business...

My official role is in Data Engineering.  Because I have a broad range of skills accumulated over the decades I am plugging a gap in our cloud engineering demand.  There...

I went to a talk by Dr Venkat Subramaniam at the Manchester museum of Science and Industry. If you get the chance to hear him speak then I can recommend...

For me this illustrates a behavioural problem I see throughout the supply chain.  Lethargy.

• Vendor acknowledgement when issues are raised
• Vendor  patching their software
• Vendor publishing the existence of a...

I know from previous experience that it is possible to lock down production.  The caveat being that you have to think through your operational needs and invest as much in...

Well said, absolutely true.

Employees come under immense pressure to "release value early"...

Even if you have immense amount of storage what you won't have is infinite budget and time for processing.  A job that must run within a time window eventually can't.

DBs...

I'm quietly optimistic in the data space.

Regardless of the technology of the day the nature of business is that it relies on communication.  Whether that is talking to customers and...

Agree totally.

I had to deal with UK motor data.  The vehicle data has a make, model and variant code as the natural key.  The only problem being that each one...

I insisted on attaching meaningful business comments to DB objects and had a nightly process that generated DB Documentation website using a competitor to Redgate SQLDoc.  This was disparaged as...