Data Masking 101
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.
Read moreA reliable and dependable application requires observability
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.
Read moreAWS RDS Aurora wish list
I’ve had this list on a post-it note on my monitor for all of 2022. I figured it was time to write it down, and reuse the space. In summary, AWS suffers from the same problem that almost every other product does.
Read moreOur Data Security Moonshot Starts With Prevention
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.
Read moreSpoiler – 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?
Read moreWhat 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.
Read moreCan a picture replace a text description?
Data visualization, data storytelling, and data lineage are all ways to better describe and visualize a specific situation for a set of data. Generally, I find these techniques are used as a means to uncover or identify information that ultimately pertains to individuals.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
Read moreWeekly 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.
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