Offerings from cloud vendors seem heavily based on open source albeit customised to some level.  Anyone remember HeartBleed, the vulnerability in OpenSSL?  I think people have a vague awareness that...

Jeff, do your teams have any tools to help them identify the impact of their change?

Years ago a senior developer said, "I hear you and want to help you but...

I do wonder whether the rejection of "big design upfront" has gone too far towards the "inadequate attention to design" end of the spectrum.

It strikes me that to build a...

One under-appreciated characteristic of  a long standing IT team is that they tend to have a good grasp of the business domain for which their work is used.  In some...

Does anyone else find that by working out how to articulate the problem in a way that a junior data engineer can understand it, the solution appears naturally out of...

"Something doesn't work" is quite broad in scope.  Not expected output/result at one end through to some form of error being thrown at the other.

With errors there is a clear...

When I started working for a business to business direct mail company and later an advertising agency I found the use of statistics fascinating.  If a company wants to be...

Certainly in the AWS cloud patching is on AWS's half of the shared responsibility model.  You can request a delay to a patch but it isn't an indefinite delay.

I am...

Isn't this what the Microsoft partnerships are for?  Isn't Redgate a Microsoft partner?

If I'm using a product for which there are 3rd party services and products I'm looking for some...

When I was  developing web sites using a CMS we had the CMS Authoring suite pointing at one DB and the web site consuming a subscribing DB, effectively separating reads...

I've seen some business fashions come and go.

When I started my career it was coming to the end of one where managers who wanted to progress had to move through...

The biggest structural change I went through was when the organisation moved from teams arranged for their technical responsibilities to teams aligned to a product.  It was a squads/tribes/chapter/guilds thing.

Up...

I had a bad experience with an app for theatre tickets.  It required mobile data even to display tickets I had already bought and the theatre was in a bad...

Chris, Aquafold DataStudio is a DB IDE that has a poor man's equivalent of SQL Prompt where the snippets are stored as "abbreviations".

I don't know what is available in other...

I've been looking at the algorithms used by search engines.  I can just about understand them but there is no way I could come up with them.  The level of...