Monthly Archives: October 2019

Amazon recently completed a genuinely massive migration project from Oracle to AWS databases. This is an impressive accomplishment, demonstrating both technical prowess, and sustained corporate willpower. The data model of a large system permeates the entire system, and over time … Continue reading →

Do you ever wonder how it is that you are browsing https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com, and a few seconds later, as you browse Amazon for McGregor socks, and Amazon shows you an ad for a Caterpillar 797 Heavy Hauler? Who doesn’t want a Cat 797? … Continue reading →

Liberals still don’t seem to understand how Donald Trump got elected, and perhaps will be elected again. Ironic, because that’s how we got here. Liberals believe that in the election of Barack Obama, they (ignoring all the independent and conservative … Continue reading →