Category: software
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Greetings lovely people. As an engineer who recently had the joyous task of sacrificing the quasi-elegant, iPad optimized, probably accessible, centered look of Zoopla desktop site for the sake of a wider ad container, let me explain this magnificent decision. Forget user experience, forget your carefully balanced aesthetics—we’re here to…
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Look, let’s be honest. Working with React is often a joy, but sometimes (or many times?), the performance gotchas make you want to scream (and bang your head on the wall). You write “clean code”, you use your “hooks” correctly, and yet, your application feels sluggish because some overly-eager component…
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Starfleet s one of the most wasteful organizations in an imaginary world. It’s a total head-scratcher. Standard is three live backup systems for each live system? It’s like, a true engineer starts from a redundancy, LOL. I wonder how much faster their warp engines could be, if they decided to…
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+ AI, artificial intelligence, Complex Systems, Cybersecurity, Decommissioning, IT Systems, IT Waste, Redundancy, science-fiction, Security Benefits, star-trek, Starfleet, Subtractive Engineering, System Efficiency, technology, Warp Engines, Wasteful Organizations+
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Look, I’ve had a truly genius idea for an incident management tool (inspired by a conversation with a fantastic work colleague), and I’m pretty sure it’s the only honest one out there. I call it “Stoopid Uumans“, or “SU” for short. You know, like “super user” in development, but in…
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+ AI, artificial intelligence, Creative Writing, Fantasy, Funny, Humorous, Incident Management, IT, life, Parody, Sarcastic, Satire, Software Development, Story, technology, Vampire the Masquerade, writing+
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This shows what a true change takes to deliver. Patience and calm.
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DBT, or Data Build Tool, has become a popular choice for data teams, but it’s not the right fit for ?any? situation. While it offers a structured approach to data transformation, organizations will benefit from sticking with a simpler, more direct method: SQL transformations. Hahahahaha. The die is cast –…
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+ AI, artificial intelligence, azure, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Quality, Data Transformation, dbt, ELT, ETL, Jinja, Meme, SQL, Technical Debt, technology, Technology Debate, YAML+
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