I never liked that term ‘remote’. Whether in relation to me or to colleagues. It is exclusionary. And betrays a sense of ‘otherness’ that I feel is unhealthy for team cohesion. I understand that not everyone finds it easy or productive to work mostly apart from daily, in person, social...

In some ways it feels like this year flew by, in others like it was as long as an eternity. Looking back, it definitely surprises even me how many significant events have happened in these 12 months. I know one can say that about pretty much every year but it...

I have spoken before about how important it is for me and my team to make as many parts of the database stack match our larger infrastructure. One of the most crucial ways to do this is to make sure that not only are we deploying and managing databases using...

In case you don’t follow SysAdvent (in which case, why?? you are missing out on great content every year!), the post on December 6th this year was by Alice Goldfuss. I have tweeted a link to that post that day and since then my tweet has been quoted, responded to...