What's the most Epic Fail I've ever seen?
I was a traveling consulting for almost 35 years. I saw a lot. I did learn from epic fail scenarios. But. I haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about the lessons learned there. I never have a glib answer to …
more ...Some thoughts: http://workingwithdevs.com/delivering-databases-migrations-vs-state/
This covers a lot of ground on the Declarative vs. Procedural question. It explains a lot of the considerations that lead to choosing a procedural schema evolution vs. a declarative schema with an implied change sequence to migrate to each new declared state.
The …
more ...See {filename}/blog/2016/06/2016_06_10-database_conversion_or_schema_migration.rst
People talk about CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment).
They also need to talk about CM (Continuous Migration).
"Wait, what?" you ask.
When we roll out a new version of the software (CD) there are three common situations.
Here's what I love -- an argument that can only add cost and complexity to a project.
It sounds like this to me: "We need to fragment the code base into several different languages. Some of the application programming simply must be written in a language that's poorly-understood, with tools that …
more ...Got an email with links about NoSQL. Links like "Going NoSQL with MongoDB". This -- like many such articles -- includes the phrase "the NoSQL movement" as if there's something new going on. Thank goodness Ted Neward includes quotes around "new". This isn't new. And doubly good, Neward doesn't use words like …
more ...Imagine that you're a beer distributor who provides "just-in-time" beer by type. You don't take orders for a specific brand, you take orders a type: stout, lager, India pale ale, etc. You resolve the bill based on what you actually delivered.
This can be kind of complex. However, there's no …
more ...Great article on "Search" from back in '08 in Forbes. "Why Google Isn't Enough", by Dan Woods. He's talking about "Enterprise Search": why in-house Google-style search is really hard and often unsatisfying.
Here's the cool quote.
enterprise search systems also index and navigate information that may reside in databases, content …more ...
We do a lot of bulk loads. A lot.
So many that we have some standard ETL-like modules for generic "Validate", "Load", "Load_Dimension", "Load_Fact" and those sorts of obvious patterns.
Mostly our business processes amount to a "dimensional conformance and fact load", followed by extracts, followed by a different "dimensional …
more ...Check this SD Times article out: Future of data analysis lies in tools for humans, not automatic systems.
"Andreas Weigend... said that “data is only worth as much as the decisions made based on that data."
This is the entire point of IT: IT Systems Support Decision-Making. The job is …
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