AWS caught the flak for customers misconfiguring S3 buckets and misunderstanding bucket ACLs.  AWS's approach was to deprecate the ACL approach in favour of more easily understood policy document approach...

Even between RDBMS there are differences that can have a profound impact on the availability, performance, security and data quality.

There are certain fundamental principles that apply to managing databases, RDBMS...

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This cures me of my long-standing whinge that we still don't have flying cars.

When I buy a product I expect it to last for as long as I look after it and as long as wear and tear allows.  I think that we've...

In the position I am in now, within reason, I can pay down tech debt.  One of the 1st tasks I was given when I joined my current company was...

The longevity of RDBMS speaks volumes for the quality of thought that went into its underlying principles.  The technology came later.

I'm not yet at the age where I feel sanguine...

In terms of different types of office spaces, it might be the same thing. Usually higher performers get more closed offices, or quieter ones. How we manage that with...

I worked on a product recommendation algorithm.  For the most part if was a personalised sort order for results from a customer search.  We recognised the danger of a self-fulfilling...

Thank you, David! I'm not familiar with any of those, so I appreciate ti. BTW, what's the name of the GitHub Actions extension by Omar Tawfik? I tried searching...

We use Terragrunt/Terraform for infrastructure as code and deploying different config for different environments.

As our CICD pipelines are GitHub workflows we use Github environment secrets.  One of the inputs to...

Rod, I use Visual Studio code...

There's also YAGNI (You Ain't Going To...

Kelsey Hightower had a few posts on Twitter championing monoliths.  Given that he was a Google Distinguished Engineer this seemed out-of-step with prevalent thoughts on cloud architecture.  However the more...

To be fair to Brent his time, as a consultant, would not be time well spent cleaning up a client's code base.

When I'm analysing an old code base for a...

Good question.

I had a storage problem with a data warehouse and needed to remove some data.  I went to the various users of the warehouse to find out what could...