Chaos Monkey etc sounds like madness but the more you think about it the more it makes sense. At one time garbage collection sounded like the ravings of a...

nigel 69291 (10/11/2015)

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Many people find it difficult to distinguish between the way things actually work, from how it should work, from how they would like it to work. ...

Exactly! There is nothing magical about the cloud and in fact to get the most out of it requires an attention to detail that would benefit any environment.

I feel...

romanilic (8/13/2013)

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Interesting article.

I have index with 3 columns.

I get Index Seek with 2 columns in Seek Predicates.

And one column in Predicates: [T_Encounter].[sysDeleted] as [e].[sysDeleted]='N'

There are no hidden implicit conversions. ...

Contract hire for bump up resource may be low risk but contract hire to fill an area where there is a lack of expertise is a bit trickier.

You can easily...

I have friends who are mechanics. They tell me that they get a lot of business from vehicles predating a point in time then a gap then vehicles...

I feel it is perfectly reasonable for a vendor to communicate the lifecycle of their software. Lets face it Microsoft give ample warning and a long period of time...

So much of what we talk about today has existed in some form for decades.

Fred P Brooks wrote "The mythical man month" in 1975 after 25 years in the...

The thing about code smells is that they tend to be working code that someone was praised for delivering on time and to budget.

Identifying the code smell is a thankless...

GoofyGuy (10/5/2015)

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And now for a different opinion[/url].

Sometimes developers are being asked to perform their...

There seems to be a collective state of denial around security. "It will never happen to us"!

The reality is that companies are playing Russian Roulette. The...

Having read through this thread the observation I would make is that where a data model is a good expression of the business process it has been designed to support,...

I know the UK tax system was supposed to be migrated to a client server architecture when such things were fashionable. As far as I am aware it is...

I know of senior managers who book an explicit spot in their diary which is sacrosanct.

When I became a manager I found that I was pulled from pillar to post...

I like Alan's definition.

There is a difference between a data scientist and the skills required in a data science department.

No matter how predictive the models or actionable the insight if...