I agree for the following reasons.

Imagine that you are a developer who has worked their heart out to build something as best they can with the information they...

Isn't a separate DevOps team defeating the whole point?  Wasn't the idea to bring people together and not to create a new priesthood?

Pretty much agree with Ryan.  I've yet to see anything worthwhile come out of a religious war.  I'm a great believer in the genius of AND vs the tyranny of...

I think one of the problems is that we all know good documentation when we see it but the definition of good documentation is elusive.

The art of writing...

It is very telling that Amazon do not run the same version of their underlying hypervisor across their entire infrastructure.  Part of the reason that they do this is that...

One of the outcomes of the banking crisis was awareness that the regulator had been a watch dog that didn't bark, let alone bite.  There was an all-to-cosy relationship between...

It has long been possible to do a complete unattended install of SQL Server with detailed configuration and chain that into a complete virtual server build.  We know this because...

Also, in a Data Warehouse I would consider having a dimension entry for "Feature Not Yet Implemented"

As far as magic numbers are concerned about the only ones that have ever made sense to me are for date and time keys for dimensional data modelling.

In...

I am optimistic about self drive cars.  The bit that excites me is that a whole chain of vehicles could be talking to each other so when the front one...

I only hope that Microsoft port SSIS across to Linux.

One CTO described their choice of ETL tool as a C+ in a C- world.  I've used a number...

I'm using Apache Spark more and more and we are using it to join and query data from many different sources.  It makes sense to have a compute engine in...