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  • Reply To: Creating Documentation

    I write for my future self and colleagues and see documentation as being part of my duties as a principal engineer.  That said I do make it easier for myself...

  • Reply To: A Case for Document Storage

    For me there are two definite use cases for document DBs.

    • Prototype apps
    • Anything where you would use an entity-attribute-value model.

    I've mentioned before that when I first started looking at...

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    With sabbaticals is it unpaid leave?  For much of my career I would not have been in a position to take such an option.

  • Reply To: Experimenting with Go-SQLCMD

    If it is written in GO then that language has a nice balance of ease of use, speed of compilation, speed of execution, and testability.

    If anyone was wondering what to...

  • Reply To: Data Modeling Information

    Calendar and Clock tables make life a lot easier when used as part of a Dimensional model.  Especially if it is implemented in a column store.

    If you've seen the queries...

  • Reply To: Moore's Law: Navigating the Pace of Technological Change

    It takes time for people to understand a new feature, what benefits it will bring and at what cost.  It is not always easy for a technical person and a...

  • Reply To: Moving away from an RDBMS

    Interesting reading this in 2023.  I've seen a few cases where PostGres has quietly recaptured ground previously taken by NOSQL solutions.

    I've seen people champion certain NOSQL solutions and then implement...

  • Reply To: Coming Out of the Cloud

    I find that a major challenge is getting fast running local tests in place.  In AWS there is the moto library that mocks may of the objects covered by the...

  • Reply To: Data Oriented Cloud Security Mechanisms

    Good article.

    Perhaps expanding on it with more details of IAM users, roles, policies and groups?

    There is also the security group and network ACLs coupled with VPCs and subnets.

     

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    Losing staff is like suffering an organisational brain injury.  In most cases the effect is minor akin to a memory lapse and the knowledge is still there, just not residing...

  • Reply To: Big Data Downsides

    As with so many things, it is not the size of the wand but the magic of the magician that makes the difference.

  • Reply To: Big Data Downsides

    Self fulfilling prophecies.  Existing customers' purchase habits are used to market next logical product.  This is successful but amplifies the emphasis on existing behaviours to the exclusion of new behaviours.

    It...

  • Reply To: Living With Broken Software

    For me, as a deaf person that sort of thing is a source of considerable stress. IF I can find some contact details, will I have to attempt a phone...

  • Reply To: Being Responsible for Data

    Tough cases make for bad laws.

    The problem with the social media platforms is that they amplify stuff and that stuff might be extremely toxic.  Some idiot mouthing off in a...

  • Reply To: How Important is Zero Downtime?

    I think web users have lower expectations than Ye Olde Worlde desktop apps.  They are used to pressing F5 to refresh if stuff doesn't seem to have worked.

    If you get...

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