The difference between on premises and IaaS is that your on premises hardware may be higher grade and less prone to failure. I'd encourage anyone migrating to the cloud...

Maybe what I'm describing already exists - but one method of securing shared documents or datasets would be where the data is encrypted at rest, and then when you share...

Is there a different in how you architect an app, depending upon if you choose a IaaS vs. PaaS approach? If we just did a lift-and-shift the...

When it comes to Azure billing, there are techniques you can use to save big time. For production resources, you can leverage resource pools or auto scale DTU up and...

Is there a different in how you architect an app, depending upon if you choose a IaaS vs. PaaS approach? If we just did a lift-and-shift the VM's into...

An AI would have to be extremely evolved before it could follow the Three Laws. I mean, entire generations of AI implementations will be deployed in industrial or service industries...

The thing about it, the worst type of criminals are smart enough to turn off their phone or better yet leave it at another location - before they do something...

At a minimum, don't allow a mobile phone app the see location data unless it really needs it (ie: web browsers, hotel reservations, social media, etc.). Sure, there may be...

Well, yes, I'd say my current...

Our DBA team uses JIRA for both daily tasks and planned projects, so it's transparent what each of us is working on. We also have weekly team stand-up meetings which...

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Rod, I think the analysis paralysis thing is a problem for really smart people. Me, I'm more likely to come to the brown leaves conclusion...

Often times (especially in the realm of politics, finance, and health) the data itself can be rubbish when curated to support a narrative.

My basic advice to a startup would be:

• Don't build up your own data center - Let cloud providers like Azure and Amazon do this for you at a fraction...

Logging process failure notifications to a Slack channel is good too, because there an existing app for receiving alerts and it's easily accessible to users across the organization.

It's now 2021, and one option we have now is to log errors to something like a csv file, and then mount it as an external table using PolyBase, so...