Years ago the company I worked for did a set of Saturday boot camps.  We were introduced to the very basics of Linux.

About a decade ago I did the equivalent...

Jeff Moden called it a Consensus Engine, which I thought was a brilliant description.

It's pretty much at peak hype in the hype cycle.  It is genuinely useful, just not the...

Below a surprisingly large scale it just doesn't make sense to build a data centre.  In my experience you will end up butting up against the hard limits on capacity...

I was part of a cross business function team that had to put together a company glossary.  Even though the glossary was signed off at the highest level and put...

I worked for a company that had several different lines of business, all acting independently.  This meant that recording the customer contact details was done in ways that each line...

One of the things I learned from this site early on (2 decades ago) was that if you get your data model right it works, performs and lasts.

When I worked...

Eric, https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-ceo-artificial-intelligence-b2302091.html

If you can replace engineers you don't need the people who manage them.  You end up with a cascading collapse.  I've got a friend who had...

Take a look at the Billy Joel video for the song "Turn the lights back on".   The song is played as if it were 4 different stages of his career...

There are a lot of good points in that article.

I've found that nurturing a relationship with people who are already trusted is what pays dividends.  When you earn the trust...

I've seen a post from Jeff Moden calling AI a Consensus Engine.  There is a lot of truth in that.

One would hope that AI wouldn't decide to eliminate its own...

I've been attending a lot of DataBricks webinars and AI meetup groups.

There has been a lot of talk about agentic behaviour, that behaviour that acts like an AI agent.  There...

I think of Cloud DBs as being somewhat like hire cars.  What you get is road worthy but more likely to be a Dacia Duster rather than a Golf GTI.

In...

One of the duties of an IT Architect is to control the technology complexity.

What an IT department should look to nurture is pools of expertise to address pockets of ignorance. ...

This resonates with me.  The way my parents brought me up was to think

• This needs doing otherwise things will get worse
• It's urgent
• It's within your skillset
• No-one else...

I think people leapt into the cloud making two big mistakes

1. Not having any governance in place
2. Not having devoted time to reading and/or understanding the Well Architected Framework.  All...