https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/data-best-practices/ Recent content in Data Best Practices on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:11:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/data-masking-101-2022-10-20/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:11:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/data-masking-101-2022-10-20/ I continue to dig up and share this simple approach for production data masking via SQL to create testing data sets. Time to codify it into a post. Rather than generating a set of names and data from tools such as Mockaroo , it is more practical to use actual data for a variety of testing reasons. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-reliable-and-dependable-application-requires-observability-2022-09-29/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:43:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-reliable-and-dependable-application-requires-observability-2022-09-29/ Observability (o11y) is a critical pre-requisite component in software architecture when advocating for and preparing organizations for making informed decisions on the success of their application. Open Telemetry from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is the goto standard regardless of your choices of monitoring tools. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/our-data-security-moonshot-starts-with-prevention-2022-09-14/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:06:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/our-data-security-moonshot-starts-with-prevention-2022-09-14/ The recent re-announcement of the Cancer Moonshot highlighted a common enemy to many endeavors to improve our society as a whole, and that is using common sense and already known methods.