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They’re also completely illegal in Europe under GDPR regulations.

Isn’t strange that this talent shortage never translates itself into decent rates?

Rubbish! I have an iPhone 16 and it has a sim slot.

The silence is deafening

I used to do similar work. Back in the day I used 25 TB as the cut off point for single node design. It’s certainly larger now.

You’re absolutely right about the organizational dynamics. Many mangers in large companies, derive their status and power from a knowledge of existing business processes and proced…

Kent’s original book is a masterpiece. He pretty much defined data modelling nearly fifty years ago. It’s depressing how little of real interest has been added since. For the reaso…

Even as an entry level business analyst you’re probably make more than a COBOL programmer. Don’t touch it.

As somebody who has written both COBOL and APL, I can assure you that they are both obsolete.

You certainly won’t hit it with most corporate OLAP processing, which is nearly all read-only SQlite. Writes are generally batched and processed outside ‘normal’ business hours, wh…

No. The issue is whether you NEED to not whether you want to. 10 to 15 years ago, you could argue, however implausibly, that hardware constraints meant vertical scaling was impossi…

I would go even further and argue that vast majority of businesses will never need to think about distributed systems. Modern hardware makes them irrelevant to all but the most nic…

Genuinely curious about what sort of business stores and processes 14 PB on a 60 node cluster.

I absolutely agree. It’s also a silly to believe that because it’s old it’s culturally significant. There’s plenty of ancient dross in the back catalogues.

Frankly, these words are too kind.

It’s slightly more nuanced than that. Investment banks and consultancy companies are really interested in graduates who are smart and articulate. The nature of their degree is not …

The vast majority of jobs on LinkedIn are fake. Even so your figures confirm my claim; 24k graduates versus 15k jobs. The supply is greater than the demand. As a sibling comment ha…

Unfortunately in 2025 you can probably add software engineering to the list of degrees to avoid.

The vast majority of businesses will never need more than single node architecture. Hardware advances are continually increasing that percentage. SPARK and its modern counterpart D…

The market can remain depressed for longer than you can remain solvent. We should be encouraging people to look at alternative careers to tech. Life after tech. We should also be m…

It’s extraordinary how frequently companies discuss the cost of a bad hire and never consider the opportunity cost of a no-hire. Companies that keep waiting for Mr. Right are reall…

This was wonderfully explored in the following paper https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/668166

Extraordinary! I can’t think of any of the advent of code questions this year where a database would have been of any use. Do tell us more.

I suggest you come over to the UK. I know several guys with postgraduate STEM degrees and 10 years of development experience who can’t even get interviews. It’s very bad here.

You’re too kind. There’s nothing borderline about it.