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Community Comment: Part 18 - Lines of code (LOC) is not a good productivity measure

* Lines of code (LOC) not good productivity measure * Preparation rewards !> participation rewards * Finish time matters for running race * End product matters for software

Community Post: Part 1 - My proposal to DB-Engines for inclusion of Databricks was successful!

* My open letter to DB-Engines * Gartner's "DBMS market share ranks" post * Databricks left out of DB-Engines ranking * My proposal to DB-Engines was successful

Media Query Source: Part 39 - Enable Architect (US digital magazine); My career journey from software engineer to architect

* Enable Architect (US digital magazine) * My career journey from engineer to architect * "Architect" definition dependent on audience * Practical experience & flexibility bring value My full responses ended up being transformed into an article at Enable Architect (June 14, 2022), after working through several rounds of editing with the

Media Query Source: Part 38 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Low code: satisfying meal or junk food?

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Low code development platforms * Short-term benefits for the non-technical * Application lifespan often underestimated My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (May 10, 2022). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article.

New Book Review: "Hero on a Mission"

New book review for Hero on a MIssion: A Path to a Meaningful Life, by Donald Miller, HarperCollins Leadership, 2022: Copy provided by Amazon. Just after I had first started reading through this book, someone commented to me that they had also started reading another book, entitled "Man'

Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability

Community Comment: Part 16 - The categories I use for my reading lists

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Founder of Taproot Foundation and Imperative: Need your advice, please. I buy and get a lot of books as gifts – which I love. My new home office and frankly our house is starting to be overflowing with them. I

Community Comment: Part 15 - Tech industry titles like "architect" aren't standardized

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Director at Executive Search Firm: Do not hire an architect if you want them to be sat writing code all day long! Sounds simple, right? Well, as crazy as it sounds, almost every week I speak to architects who

Community Comment: Part 14 - Vendor data products like Snowflake, Redshift & BigQuery are infrastructure, not data architecture

Media Query Source: Part 37 - The Data Chief (ThoughtSpot podcast); My biggest data priority this year (2022)

Note: unfortunately for the first time, I withdrew my response from consideration after discussing further with the Deloitte communications team. As I explained to folks at The Data Chief, while my response was generic, some uncertainty had subsequently been introduced as to whether the details I shared were permissible, and