Tag Archives: databases

Going On-Prem?

Posted on July 11, 2016 by way0utwest

When I started in this business, every company owned their own servers, and had their own data center. Now, some of those data centers were closets (including that for one state government Senate). Some were offices-converted-to-computer rooms, rarely with separate … Continue reading →

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Abstraction

Posted on June 7, 2016 by way0utwest

One of the core tenets of good software design is to abstract away details in any particular part of an application. We want to use well defined and constructed interfaces so that the implementation of any particular method or section … Continue reading →

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The Data Dewey Decimal System

Posted on April 11, 2016 by way0utwest

As a small child, I learned about the Dewey Decimal System in school. Those were the days when you wanted to look up some information or check a fact, you needed to peruse the dead tree books in a library, … Continue reading →

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The End of 2015

Posted on December 31, 2015 by way0utwest

I’m off on vacation, so I won’t be able to respond, but I decided to take a few minutes and look back at 2015 before leaving for the year. This was a year that seems to have been marked by … Continue reading →

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