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Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 1 of 2: History
Iceberg: The great unifying vision finally allowing us to escape the vendor lock-in of our database engines. One table and metadata format to find them ... And in the darkness bind I the...
Greed vs Bravery Based Engineering
It is difficult to find words that accurately describe the cruelty, selfishness and outright evil on display from the White House these days. The guiding principle of Gordon Gekko: is...

Coupling, Complexity, and Coding
Why is the IT industry obsessed with decoupling? Does breaking systems into smaller parts you can understand individually really make them easier to manage and scale? Today, we the of...