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  • RE: Is Rollback Feasible for Database Changes?

    One of the benefits of releasing a little and often is that a deployment is rarely big enough to cause major headaches.

    The advantage of robust automated testing is that a...

  • RE: A Slower Job

    Eric M Russell (8/17/2016)


    Organizations appreciate sage advice and advanced technical support, but they don't necessarily see it as revenue generating.

    Revenue generation and in particular short term revenue generation will...

  • RE: Designing for the Public

    http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665375/the-6-pillars-of-steve-jobss-design-philosophy

    Absolutely agree that clarity and simplicity is a major weapon in producing a secure system.

    It also leads to more easily maintained and understood code and thus it becomes obvious where...

  • RE: Designing for the Public

    The UK government provides a mixed experience with regards to usability. The open data stuff is great. HMRC (The UK equivalent of the American IRS) still have a...

  • RE: A Slower Job

    Once the mortgage is paid and the kids are earning their own money I'll have enough money to do anything but not enough to do nothing.

    I don't mind hard work...

  • RE: Bash for ETL pre-processing

    I have become convinced that a robust data model is more important in schema on read DBs, not less.

    Having worked for two information aggregators I'm used to data flying at...

  • RE: Bash for ETL pre-processing

    I have become convinced that a robust data model is more important in schema on read DBs, not less.

    Having worked for two information aggregators I'm used to data flying at...

  • RE: Bash for ETL pre-processing

    What I see in corporate data defies rational analysis.

    • Data that should be on a strict need-to-know basis available for general consumption
    • Data that should be generally available locked up tighter than...

  • RE: Data Overload

    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...

  • RE: Keyboard Hardlines

    I must admit I was picturing Steve pounding out all caps missives from FURIOUS OF COLORADO

    :-D:-D:-D:-D

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

  • RE: Keyboard Hardlines

    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...

  • RE: Data Overload

    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...

  • RE: Security Shaming

    When someone says "ok so what do I do?" We're pretty vague

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

  • RE: Failover

    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...

  • RE: The Relentless Cloud

    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...

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