I am trying to get unit tests working on an application that depends on various frameworks.

The code as written is convoluted, poorly structured and obscure. I am not...

With few exceptions I stayed in most of my jobs too long and share the experience expressed in the editorial.

In all cases I stayed because I got on well with...

Fred P Brooks wrote a paper called "The 2nd system affect". It's worth reviewing it.

The problem with a rewrite is that identifying the true scope and therefore the costs...

cad.delworth (7/20/2016)

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Anyone who is not a US citizen, or not a US company, should be aware that data owned by non-US citizens but held on servers under US jurisdiction is...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/19/2016)

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David.Poole (7/19/2016)

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This situation destroys trust between IT and business people. The question "Why don't you know how to alter the system you wrote?" Is...

This situation destroys trust between IT and business people. The question "Why don't you know how to alter the system you wrote?" Is a hard one to answer.

That's a dilemma. On one hand you want people empowered by technology, on the other hand it's the mother of all security nightmares.

It is orders of magnitude worse than...

In the Amazon world if you are prepared to commit to a time period you can reserve instances at a substantial reduction.

With Amazon RDS instances the operational DBA work goes...

Ditto on the human factor. This becomes ever more important when you reach more senior positions.

The point about working extra hours is well made. There's a challenge to...

Data warehouse in the cloud has to be thought through very carefully.

I think we've done the security concerns to death so enough said on that subject.

RedShift is a column store...

At the SQLBits event in Westminster a few years back Simon Munroe did an excellent presentation on NOSQL and where he saw it fitting in. At the time I...

International considerations are a challenging area.

If you want to operate in a market then you have to abide by the rules of that particular market. Back in the 1980s...

Japie Botma (7/11/2016)

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What about POPI laws? (Protection of Personal Information Act). If your data is in the cloud and the whereabouts of the actual server can change with fail...

I spent nearly 2 years on a project that was intended to put a data lake in the cloud. It turned into an infrastructure/data centre migration project in all...

Diligently using fuzzy logic to produce an answer for the wooly thinkers