Ooh, kind of a stinging rebuke for me today, Steve. I think I've played it safe more often than challenged myself. Ouch.

I hope you're right, Steve. The pandemic showed that people can get their jobs done in any location, with appropriate connectivity. I've been working from home (WFH) since March 2020...

Rod, are you able to give some details as to what went wrong and why the switch to cloud was unsuccessful?  It would be useful to compare notes.

In AWS...

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Exceptionally good article, Steve. Where I work, we never successfully got a database into the cloud, that I'm aware of. Not due to a lack of trying. In 2018 or...

One place to keep important SQL-related information for me is SSC's Briefcase feature.  For a while after I became a member it wasn't working (at least for me using...

We do use message tools at work. It's been an assortment of tools as one manager would require, we use one for a while, then another a different one. Currently...

Thank you for this article, Steve. I suffer from impostor's syndrome. There are definite times I've felt inadequate. In fact, impostor's syndrome has prevented me from applying for more than...

Very, very true, Steve.

David, I think that it's possible to hold too tightly to old tech, too. Guess there's problems at either extreme.

Steve, you've hit upon the biggest issue I contend with at work, concerning trying to get DevOps going; that's changing both people and processes. I'm a developer who I called...

Thank you, Steve, that's very kind. 🙂

Steve, I appreciate your editorial of July 15th. The topic of remote work has become, for me, an especially important one. Prior to March 2020, when we were all sent...

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As it so happens, I live less than two miles from an Intel plant. I remember those layoffs in 2015/2016. Some friends of mine suffered through them. But I didn't...

I also have built PCs rather than buy them. And like you, Steve, I had a close friend, Dave H., who helped me. Whenever I built a machine, he would...

Thank you very much, @skeleton567, your NAS information is great!!