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...

For much of my career there has been a dividing line between "the business" and tech.  I have to admit, in my early career I was only interested in tech. ...

To be frank, I don't see NFRs (non-functional requirements) in general given the attention to detail they deserve.

I perceive NFRs as being putting business context & need around what is...

I used to work for an advertising agency.  Various companies offered up their customer lists to non-competitors and allowed various filters to be applied to the selection.  Recency, purchase category...

I think we are near the peak of the hype cycle for AI.

Last week I got something useful out of ChatGPT. I asked it how to do some data manipulation...

I found that building a container to run PostGres was a useful training exercise.  It was hard enough to be interesting but not so hard that I threw the monitor...