I'm coming to the end of my career and looking back I can see huge amount of data collected, allegedly for auditing purposes, that was never accessed and no clear...

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Come on Steve, spill the beans. How do you break that many?

I think this is an extremely valid concern.

In an office of 10 people one of the frequent problems we have is when the pairing between the keyboard and base goes...

There are so many problems with retaining data with no clear use case.

It has to be backed up, restored, go through DR rehearsals, all of which have an increasing impact...

That pretty much sums it up for me. No-one sets out to write bad software. There...

I remember our production team arguing a split brain situation in a mirrored server where the support engineer kept insisting it was impossible and the team said It's right here...

In a perfect world yes, however my experience of working in FTSE 100 technology and financial services companies is often the opposite. The bigger the company, the greater the pressure...

It is one of those practises that needs to become a habit rather than something you have to apply conscious thought other than that needed to educate people new to...

In terms of physical data centre security I am pretty sure that Amazon's data centres are considerably more robust than many companies can provide.

I am also sure that economies of...

Having a local cache is sensible. The caveat to storing data locally is to check the terms and conditions for whatever the data is.

There's a lot of information out there...

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I think the postcodes aren’t the best example in what concern the data quality assessment rules. Even if one succeeds in his attempts of reengineering the postcodes rules, by...

Go ahead. In an ideal world we'd have a...

Thanks and good spot.

Excellent point about confidence. It's too...

Amen brother!

I had the experience of trying to deprecate...

I get the point about 10x data loads but that is stress testing rather than unit testing.

Stress testing is incredibly important. The reason for separating out unit, integration, ...