The fictitious bit is the happy ending

As Steve notes, there have always been people within the business putting together DIY utilities.  These end up being mission critical.  I don't think I'm being massively cynical in saying...

There are so many things we have to ask ourselves with regard to autonomous systems.
Which rules designed for human situations simply don't apply in autonomous ones?  If you take...

SQL Server 7 gets a vote from me.  I used to nurse maid a SQL6.5 instance and had to upload data from a client on a weekly basis with a...

I feel that this is an endless cycle.  If you have an out-of-the-box solution change to bepoke development.  If you have bespoke development then change the other way.
Trying to...

The longer you are in IT the more likely you are to recognise today's hot topic as yesteryears reheat. It's an endless cycle of centralise/decentralise, buy/build, specialise/generalise.

I see...

I would tend to agree.  My remit these days is to look at a number of different data technologies.  There's definitely a role for people who can get down in...

Something else that drives the approach is whether those in power think an Enterprise Data Warehouse is a server or an ecosystem

In my experience not all ETL tools are created equal.  Ab Initio still blows my mind.  Some of the open-source offerings, well, Ab Initio blows my mind.
I've seen ETL...

We use Apache Spark which reduces the need for ELT.  We wrestle with the "How do you unit test and integration tool?" question.  An awful lot of what we do...

We use hiera to store encrypted settings.  Reading the hiera eyaml file won't do you any good.
What little AD and Linux experience I have suggests that an app has...