I've been asked to provide a high level architectural design for a system.
I've also been set DB scenarios as interview questions but haven't been asked explicitly for a DB...

I found that the brittleness in replication is due to the complexity and flexibility of the facility.  The brittleness was more down to inadvertent misconfiguration than an inherent problem with...

I wish I could find the blog post that addresses business logic in databases.
The gist of the article was that "Business Logic" was too broad a term to have...

I use AWS RedShift on a daily basis which is based around PostGres 8.  I like the reduced DBA headaches but there is nothing like using another DB to make...

There are genuinely good reasons for adopting some of the NOSQL solutions.  The trick is to understand where the proposal to adopt a NOSQL solution is to satisfy a real...

I think many job descriptions aren't worth the paper they are printed on.  My role varies so much you could write it as "Do stuff with data for money.  Mentor...

Someone once said to me that what you get when you buy expensive software is a bigger bug list.

I think the logic is that something like Microsoft Word...

There's what users want and there's what users need.  If you are lucky there is a lot of overlap between the two.
I find that over customisation has many causes

The Mrs didn't like receiving an aged based communication that said she was NaN.

The dog and I went for a LONG walk that day.

It helps if you have tools like OWASP AppSensor.
You don't know what you don't know so anything that automates code inspection is extremely useful.  By the time you have...

I'd say we need to hire white hat hackers.  I knew one.  To say he was greatly unappreciated by the powers that be would have been an understatement.

You'd...

Mostly agree with you Grant.  Poor decision making and then the work effort to correct it getting ever larger over time.  A stitch in time saves 9, 81, 729 etc....

The British Airways outage was as frustrating for IT professionals as it was to customers (some of whom were IT professionals).
When these big disasters occur there is an opportunity...