A New Word: Hiddled

hiddled – adj.  feeling of loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself.

I don’t know I am often hiddled. I don’t tend to keep secrets by myself. Often I do share with my wife, because it’s important to me to unload on someone, discuss something, or make them aware. That last one seems to be more important as I age.

That being said, if I didn’t share a secret, I would feel quite hiddled.

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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DevOps Days Minneapolis–Best Practices for Database Deployments

Thanks to everyone who attended, though with one stage I had a fairly captive audience. I enjoyed the event and look forward to coming back to the Twin Cities in the future.

A few nice questions, which I’ll address in a few posts:

  • What are feature flags
  • How do feature flags work in SQL?
  • How do we reorder work when we’ve deployed to QA?
  • Is there a way to avoid blame in a retrospective?

Slides: DevOpsDaysMN_BestPracticesForDatabaseDeployments

You can also watch the presentation on YouTube:

 

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Simple Talks–Episode 3

The third episode of Simple Talks is out. This is the new Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan, and Louis. The main page is here, and it has links to the audio versions as well as a the video one.

We recorded Episode 1 and 3 in Cambridge in June. Here’s a short behind the scenes look at the studio in the Redgate office.

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We recorded a few more in Austin, which are being edited and scheduled. Look for those to come out in the next few months.

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The Redgate Summit: New York

The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at Times Square in New York City and I’m excited to be going.

You can register today and join us for a full day of learning about DevOps, database development and management, and how to build better software. We have three tracks, each full of events for the day.

  • New and Future Technologies
  • Deep Dive Solutions
  • Leadership

We have both Redgaters and industry experts on hand to deliver a wide range of sessions and panels. I’m not sure what I’m doing yet, but I’m sure I’ll be assigned a few of the TBD speaker slots.

Hopefully you can come enjoy a fun day in Manhattan in a few weeks. Tell your boss you want to learn how to better build and manage database software and head to the City. Then register and say hi to me in a few weeks.

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