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The Job Outlook for Database Professionals

Posted on March 5, 2025 by way0utwest

This is a strange time for many technology professionals and their employment. It seems many organizations have open positions and are struggling to fill those slots with qualified candidates (one look at this). At the same time, many other organizations … Continue reading →

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No End to Programmers

Posted on February 8, 2025 by way0utwest

There’s an interesting piece at O’Reilly this week titled The End of Programming as We Know It. That’s actually a good title, but it doesn’t mean the end to programmers, developers, software engineers, of whatever people call themselves. The piece … Continue reading →

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Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

Posted on January 24, 2025 by way0utwest

The short answer is of course, most of us can learn and improve our skills to become better developers, engineers, DBAs, etc. While we might not be able to become the 10x engineer that many aspire to be, we can … 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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