Securing Your Instances
This week Steve Jones looks at moving the port numbers of your instances for a bit of security.
2022-11-25 (first published: 2017-01-13)
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Editorials
AI Medical Record Scanning
Artificial Intelligence can help humans, both in diagnosis, but also in teaching medical professionals.
2022-11-23
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The Challenge of New Platforms
As our organizations grow, they may add new data stores. That might not be the best decision for staff as the amount of knowledge they need grows. Steve notes that you might seek to limit the number of technologies you support.
2022-11-21
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Challenging Yourself
Steve is challenging himself to do better, which means he might not hit his goals.
2022-11-18
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Self-Service Databases
When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, the dependencies, and more were handled in a very immature manner. These days I can […]
2022-11-16
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What's the Edge Case?
Building software means not only considering the data people expect, but also edge cases. Steve asks if you know what those edge cases are?
2022-11-14
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Practical IOT
The use of IoT and lots of data is allowing governments to better serve their citizens.
2022-11-12
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Losing Skills Because of Automation
When I was younger, it seemed that everyone I worked with in technology knew how to build a computer. Most knew how to work with a BIOS, were comfortable with command lines, and could assemble complex compiler directives into a Make file. Over time, it seems many people, especially Windows and MacOS users, became focused […]
2022-11-11
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Psychological Safety
Building psychological safety inside of a company is hard, but it is important to build trust and develop a team.
2022-11-09
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DevOps is Culture
A big part of adopting DevOps and becoming better at building software is establishing culture.
2022-11-07
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
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on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
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