Its important to remember that you have to want them, they have to want you.  Just like any other relationship.

In the UK, demand for tech jobs is strong so the...

I'm not sure I agree with the list in the article.  Having seen ChatGPT responses to questions I can see a place for an eternally patient incident management AI trained...

More than a decade ago the company I was working with were trying to adopt DevOps and Agile ways of working.  As a team of DBAs we were wrestling with...

I think Charity Majors at Honeycomb.io is keen on this.

She wrote Database Reliability Engineering and Observability Engineering which are both respected works.

In lower environments you can only test...

With all new technologies I'm conflicted.  I can see so many benefits to autonomous vehicles.  Pre-COVID I would say that my car was in use for only 7% of the...

Another concern is that disabling a sensor could pose a risk to others.

After migrating a massive number of documents for the AAIB and MAIB earlier in my career...

I think where AI helps is as a 2nd pair of eyes when you are coding.  It will question and suggest things that a person would be too embarrassed to...

I was introduced to the example of the "Upthing explainer" in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thing-Explainer-Complicated-Stuff-Simple/dp/1473620910

I loved the explanation of the Saturn V rocket (“U.S. Space Team’s Up Goer Five”): “Lots of...

A good friend told me years ago to think of a subscription to a quality training service, such as Pluralsight, as an investment in myself rather than a cost.  There...

I've been banging on about librarianship for years.

When I write pages on Confluence I have a number of standard templates, all of which have a header table with a minimum...

Rod, it may take me a while but I will put together some stuff for you and pass it on.

I think that is a good point.  Review what the developer has actually submitted, not other stuff.  Obviously there are some "It depends" scenarios.  Restricting the blast radius is a...

Where I work we have GitHub workflows.  These contain a number of things

• Linters/formatters
• Test suites with minimum code coverage requirements
• Docker container builders
• Docker vulnerability scanners

We are investigating

If you are a manager then the thing that lets you be autonomous is being able to trust your staff to be autonomous.

The danger I find with autonomy is that...

I came across a DB with thousands of tables.

A process was run where a master stored procedure was run that triggered another 10 stored procs.

Each stored proc generated a dynamically...