Monthly Archives: May 2024

A New Word: Insoucism

Posted on May 24, 2024 by way0utwest

insoucism – n. the inability to decide how much sympathy your situation really deserves, knowing that so many people have it far worse and others far better, that some people would need years of therapy to overcome what you have, … Continue reading →

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Using Flyway with Feature Flags

Posted on May 22, 2024 by way0utwest

There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to improve your database deployment experience, especially if you want to control … Continue reading →

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Invisible Downtime

Posted on May 22, 2024 by way0utwest

This article has a concept I’ve never heard about: invisible downtime. This is the idea that there are problems in your application that the customer sees. Your servers are running, but the application doesn’t work correctly or is pausing with … Continue reading →

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Writing Parquet Files – #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on May 20, 2024 by way0utwest

Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday, possibly querying it, and perhaps building a data warehouse of sorts. The modern view of data warehousing seems to be built on using a Lakehouse architecture where data moves … Continue reading →

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