Weekly Musings
Spoiler – Owning your data isn’t good enough
While this is a catchy title, if you use Software as a Service (SaaS), or an online cloud provider, do you actually own and have total control of your business data and its infrastructure?
What is the right length of a blog post?
A question without a definitive answer. Finding opinions from authoritative sources can also be easily obscured due to search engine optimization or even the choice of words used while searching.
A summer sabbatical
In recent weeks I have been sharing more informal thoughts and in the upcoming weeks, there will be a period of greater radio silence. After three decades as a professional, I am taking the entire summer off.
Weekly Musings – July 8, 2022
A very succinct description of the responsibilities of leadership by Jawad Nagda (infographic below) shows a number of key features of management that are also needed in data storytelling such as empathy, integrity, and listening.
Weekly Musings – June 10, 2022
A large part of my work week was spent u-hauling across 1/3 of the country. This was a very mentally intense time, indeed 8-10 hrs per day of concentration working with dangerous equipment and sometimes in unpredictable situations with little break was harder than sitting at a desk.
Weekly Musings – June 3, 2022
This week I wanted to share more about Observability and the CNCF foundation project Open Telemetry . Observability is a necessary foundation for any information system however observability does not answer questions that are essential for a successful business to operate.
Weekly Musings – May 27, 2022
——— We should all take a moment to reflect that going to school should be a safe, happy, and memorable part of everybody’s life. That was taken away this week from 19 children because common-sense laws, licenses, and checks do not apply to deadly weapons in this country.
Weekly Musings – May 20, 2022
The Linux Foundation came across my reading path two separate times this week. As I continue to re-establish my larger footprint solely in the open-source ecosystem Setting an Open Source Strategy is a detailed report for any business to identify the potential return on investment (ROI) of participating in the open-source ecosystem.
Weekly musings – May 13 2022
As I reflect on this week of my technology journey with the conversations I had, what I learned, and what I wanted to do and write about, I decided what better way to work on multiple blog posts than write about what I’d like to write about.