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Five Years and Counting

Voice of the DBA

Release Date: 06/16/2024

Unreliable Narrators show art Unreliable Narrators

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Building a Data Center show art Building a Data Center

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Words vs Data show art Words vs Data

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Data Debt show art Data Debt

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Creating vs. Maintaining show art Creating vs. Maintaining

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If your job as a developer or DBA has been like mine, it's a constant stream of requests to change something, often without enough information and short deadlines that create a bit of stress. There's always more work to be done, and while it might be a great job, you're often trying to finish something quickly enough to get to the next thing. In this mode, how often do you think about creating (or modifying) the thing you're working on for today vs maintaining it for tomorrow. In other words, do you consider how easily your work can be understood, is documented, is designed to allow for...

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The Era of Cloned Humans show art The Era of Cloned Humans

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Can You Become a More Productive Engineer? show art Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

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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 certainly become a better employee inside of an organization. There's a piece on becoming a more effective engineer, which is actually titled . It a piece from an engineer that started with a : The text was:You can either complain and pontificate on Twitter on how the tech industry *should* ideally work, or you can learn how your org *really* works and what’s rewarded, and optimize...

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The AI Budget Assistant show art The AI Budget Assistant

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The Types of Changes show art The Types of Changes

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The Managed Cloud Database Options show art The Managed Cloud Database Options

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I almost called this "chasing a new laptop" since that's what I'm doing, but I decided to add the date because the current laptop I've using was built in March 2019 and got to me in May 2019. I've had an HP Spectre x360, my second HP Spectre, and I've really enjoyed it. I'm also amazed it still runs. On the last few trips, the two rubber strips that run along the bottom (acting as feet) started to peel away. I've never seen that before and I tried to re-attach them a few times, but that didn't work well.

Not a big deal, and I can live with that, but then during my Australian tour, the laptop started pausing and freezing a few times. It might be that there is too much software on there and needs a pave-and-reinstall, but I decided to check the age on the machine. That was when I realized it was five years old. It's been a great machine, but I don't think I've ever had a work laptop last that long with daily use. Of course, there was about a year during the pandemic when it was rarely used, so maybe its life lengthened during COVID.

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