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...

From a coding perspective the bits I find most beneficial would equally be done with a decent command line utility if I knew where one was.

I've not used Copilot but do use tools like ChatGPT and Claude. I ask them for help, they don't thrust help upon me.  Whatever happens I don't want an AI...

I went through a management training course and one of the questions was "what is the best bit about being a manager"?

We all agreed that it was seeing the successful...

And here's another one on AI.  My wife is constantly sending me links to stuff on Instagram Reels with people dramatically  blathering on about something.  My usual question is...