Category Archives: Editorial

Simple(r) Coffee

Posted on January 13, 2025 by way0utwest

Starbucks has too many order combinations. This article about the challenges for their new CEO notes there are over 170,000 combinations of things customers can order. As someone who has visited a store often and stood behind someone placing an … Continue reading →

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The Lesser Used Functions

Posted on January 10, 2025 by way0utwest

Recently, I reviewed an article that examined the bitwise functions that were added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2022. As I was looking over the article, I started to wonder if anyone was using these in production code. I used … Continue reading →

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Adding the Right Value

Posted on January 8, 2025 by way0utwest

I caught this post about a career presentation from Kendra Little and it resonated a bit with me. The summary of the post (it’s a bit long) is that there is valuable work that supports and benefits a team of … Continue reading →

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The Rise of Data Centers

Posted on January 6, 2025 by way0utwest

For the last few years, we’ve seen no shortage of cloud migration stories and felt pressure from management who wanted to migrate our systems to the cloud. It seems that almost everyone I speak to has a story of having … Continue reading →

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