Category Archives: Editorial

Unreliable Narrators

Posted on February 7, 2025 by way0utwest

I listened to an interview with Grady Booch. If you’ve never heard of him, he has been a software engineer for a long time, developed UML, and worked at IBM and a number of other places. He has devoted his … Continue reading →

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Building a Data Center

Posted on February 5, 2025 by way0utwest

Most of you reading this have likely seen a data center, and maybe sat in one while connecting to a database, but how many of you have had to try and do some of the work to set one up? … Continue reading →

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Words vs Data

Posted on February 3, 2025 by way0utwest

I would guess that most of you reading this are very comfortable looking at data for insights and answers. You might even prefer to provide a result set instead of a picture or chart to a user when they are … Continue reading →

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Data Debt

Posted on January 31, 2025 by way0utwest

I had never heard of data debt until I saw this article on the topic. In reading it, I couldn’t help thinking that most everyone has data debt, it creates inefficiencies, and it’s unlikely we’ll get rid of it. And … Continue reading →

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