Category Archives: Editorial

Imposter or Student

Posted on March 12, 2021 by way0utwest

If you’re moving forward in your career, you’re a bit of an imposter. Actually, according to David Perell, everyone is an impostor. Many of the very successful people in technology built things that they knew nothing about. They learned technology, … Continue reading →

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The Cloudy Future in 2021

Posted on March 11, 2021 by way0utwest

Ignite took place recently, and the keynote from Satya Nadella was interesting, and if you have time, interesting to watch. If not, there’s an excerpt in written form. In any case, I like his passion and excitement about the future. … Continue reading →

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The Ease of Containers

Posted on March 10, 2021 by way0utwest

I first heard about containers in 2012. I went to a conference on software delivery and talked with a gentleman that was using them in his Java application, mostly because the Java app had version issues and would leak memory. … Continue reading →

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Distributed SQL Databases

Posted on March 9, 2021 by way0utwest

One of the challenges that SQL Server, and many RDBMSes, face is scaling out. While SQL Server can grow to handle a large workload on one piece of hardware, eventually there reaches a point when a single machine cannot handle … Continue reading →

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