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  • Editorial Republish: An Azure Outage

    I had to run out of town, as noted in my other post. So you get to read An Azure Outage. Are things better? The cloud more reliable? You happy?


  • A Last Minute Trip to the EU

    My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer trips, I can be on the road a lot. As it is, I’ve flown across the Atlantic six times this year, and now I’m coming back from a 7th. I wasn’t planning on this trip. However, life doesn’t always go as planned and we have to roll with the changes. My daughter is heading to Lueven University (KU Leuven) for graduate school. My…


  • I Don’t Want To Do XX

    Every job is a job on some days. I’ve said this to my kids and others I’ve mentored over the years. I’ve probably written that here, and I truly believe it. When you work at a job, some days are bad days. There are always days you don’t want to do the work. There are also likely some days that you dread starting. Whether you work for someone else or run your own business, there will be…


  • The Book of Redgate: Hours

    I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of company I’d want to build if I founded another company. It’s a great place, and one of the things I appreciate is that we value outcomes. One of our values is: . The text on the next page continues the sentence: What you achieve is more important than how long it takes. Building software is challenging, and building software that can be sold…


  • The Cost of Multiple Platforms

    I ran into an interesting post that noted the modern data platform can have a bunch of different systems underlying it. The example might be that your “software” could use PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Clickhouse, and something NewSQL (Spanner, CockroachDB, etc,). Some of you might think that’s not reality, but keep in mind that for a lot of your organizations, the “software” is what the customer uses. I’m sure my bank has multiple systems behind the mobile app…


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