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2025

Each Table Has Its Place

19 Sep 2025

Git For The Reluctant Data Engineer

15 Jul 2025

Every Database is Special

22 May 2025

Taming the Backlog

16 Feb 2025

2024

Bring Back The Spec

24 Sep 2024

Three Causes of Data Headaches

23 Aug 2024

SQL Formatting

29 Jul 2024

Induced Demand in Knowledge Work

29 Jun 2024

Time Versus Task

23 Apr 2024

Framing Downsides

3 Apr 2024

Alerts

12 Mar 2024

Direction

12 Feb 2024

I Give the Orders Around Here

7 Feb 2024

Your Brain is a Stack

29 Jan 2024

Getting Back on Schedule

22 Jan 2024

Enough Testing

8 Jan 2024

Regression Testing

4 Jan 2024

2023

Tickets

27 Dec 2023

Acceptable Failure Rates

19 Dec 2023

Ten Rules for Data Analytics Systems

11 Dec 2023

Real Project Iteration

4 Dec 2023

One Primary Key to Rule Them All

27 Nov 2023

It's When and How, Never If

19 Nov 2023

Operational vs. Analytical Systems

29 Oct 2023

Dynamic Date Ranges

17 Oct 2023

Total Cost of Data Ownership

11 Oct 2023

Slack is a Bad Medium

2 Oct 2023

Approving New Features

21 Sep 2023

Two Minds

19 Sep 2023

Invisible Metrics

14 Sep 2023

Developer Teams are More Like Bands

1 Sep 2023

Months Are Awful And We Should Stop Using Them

26 Aug 2023

Failure States

23 Aug 2023

What Will You Do With That Data?

24 Jul 2023

Two Week Sprints

10 Jul 2023

Why Won't They Estimate?

31 May 2023

Fear of Shipping

30 Apr 2023

New Features

25 Mar 2023

The Executive Handoff

22 Mar 2023

Less Data, More Threads

13 Mar 2023

It's Just Rows and Columns

3 Jan 2023