The love of Data, Database Engineering, Architecture, Entrepreneurship, and other assorted bits
02 January 2017
I had a great time speaking with Brett Piatt on CyberTalk Radio. We chatted about data security but also talked a bit about fundamentals and the history behind how we arrived at this place in technology. We also talked a bit about the Kafka as a Service we built at Eventador.io.
23 December 2016
This has been the least blogging I have done since 2013. That year I was crazy busy building ObjectRocket, similarly, this year I have been crazy busy building Eventador.io (as we now call it). I thought I would post a retrospective of some of the years highlights and things that come to mind in a few paragraphs to end the year on a high note.
12 May 2016
Over the last few releases, PostgreSQL has developed awesome JSON functionality inside the database. That said, every once in a while you want to simply display that JSON in psql for easy viewing, working out a query, copying it to your buffer, etc. In 9.5 jsonb_pretty was included to solve this need.
18 April 2016
If I have learned nothing in the last 5 years it’s play where you are at your best. Know what you are good at, and do that. Resist playing in areas where you don’t add a lot of value, maximize your time and efforts around the things you do well. In essence double down on your talents, and leverage your passions.
23 October 2015
31 August 2015
For the last six months or so I have been exclusively using Atom as my editor. If you aren’t familiar, Atom is the editor created by Github. It’s simple, easily hackable, and generally awesome. It also doesn’t seem to be as slow as it used to be.