No Non-competes
More and more technology workers are being asked to sign non-compete agreements as a condition of their employment. But is that fair? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2008-09-08
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Editorials
How Important Is Usability?
As DBAs, we don't often deal with the human interface side of the applications that we build, but it is important. And we want to be sure that anything we develop considers the end user's perspective. Steve Jones asks how much should this matter?
2008-09-05
108 reads
Positive Blogging
Blogging is increasingly becoming a part of more and more people's lives. But to what extent should it be part of your corporate image? Steve Jones has a few comments about a very interesting blog he found.
2008-09-04
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2008-09-02
154 reads
Labor Day Bloopers
With the Labor Day holiday in the US, Steve Jones takes a break from writing and brings you a compilation of mistakes from the past few months.
2008-09-01
435 reads
One Milly-yon IOPS - Database Weekly (Sept 1, 2008)
IBM is testing a new hardware disk array that vastly outperforms any current arrays. What does this mean for the database world?
2008-09-01
241 reads
Un-Wired
This Friday's poll looks at vacation and how you prepare to be unwired. Steve Jones talks about some of the things you can do.
2008-08-29
74 reads
The August 2008 Energy Update
This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-28
93 reads
The Million Message System
Sun Microsystems built a database application that processes a million messages a second. Steve Jones talks about the achievement.
2008-08-27
161 reads
Working Under Pressure
A time of crisis means a lot of things to people in technology, but Steve Jones talks about something that's often forgotten.
2008-08-26
183 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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