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2026

  1. Absent or Outvoted — Why AI Struggles With Enterprise Software AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  2. Agents Need Memory, Not Just Permissions — an engineering history for Oracle work AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  3. The Guardian of Business State — Why the Database Must Own the Write Path AI Architecture
  4. Don't let ChatGPT write your white paper — and don't let Claude, either. AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  5. A Tale of a Rubik's Cube, Mahler's Ninth, and a Misbehaving Data Warehouse Friday Coffee
  6. Not Everything Should Be an API Microservices & APIs
  7. The Disconnected Vector Store — Why AI Storage Needs to Move Inside the Boundary AI Architecture
  8. The Borrowed Projector Friday Coffee
  9. The Object Storage Default — Why Cloud Architects Get This Wrong AI Architecture
  10. The Return of ACID — Why Agents Make Strong Transactions Non-Negotiable AI Architecture
  11. The Bridge Looked Fine Too Friday Coffee
  12. Data Integrity in an Age of Autonomous Writes AI Architecture
  13. Who Asked That? Identity, Accountability and the Agentic Query AI Architecture
  14. Where Do the Next Seniors Come From? Friday Coffee
  15. The Agent at the Gate — Why Agentic Access Breaks the Unwritten Rules of Database Security AI Architecture
  16. The Rules for Spotting a Scam No Longer Work Digital Safety
  17. Your Email Account Is the Master Key Digital Safety
  18. The Billion-Dollar One-Person Business Friday Coffee
  19. APIs Expose Data, Not Meaning Microservices & APIs
  20. AI Works Best Before You Start Coding AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  21. We've Seen This Before: What SOA Teaches Us About APIs in the Age of Agents Microservices & APIs
  22. What AI Changes About Building Blogs AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  23. Agents Don't Replace APIs. They Expose How Weak Most APIs Already Are Microservices & APIs
  24. AI Coding Tools Are Not the End of Craft Friday Coffee
  25. The Microservice Debt Collectors Have Arrived Microservices & APIs
  26. Building Your First Real GPT Is Not a Prompting Exercise AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  27. The antenna, the inter-library loans and infinite patience Friday Coffee
  28. Your Cloud Is Not a Backup Digital Safety
  29. The Other Logins You’ve Forgotten About — Apple, Facebook, and Who’s Still Watching Digital Safety
  30. At 61, AI Gave Me a Second Act Friday Coffee
  31. The Keys to Your Google Account — Do You Know Who Has Them, and Why You Should Check Now Digital Safety
  32. Why Apple Pay Actually Works — and it matters to you now Digital Safety
  33. Why You Should Change Your Debit Card Now Digital Safety
  34. NVIDIA Didn’t Miss the Data Problem — They Drew a Boundary Around It AI Architecture
  35. AI Didn’t Break Infrastructure — It Exposed Its Edges AI Architecture
  36. What’s Next for Coders? AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  37. How do you keep up with AI? Friday Coffee
  38. AI Is About to Expose Your Security Posture — Not Improve It AI Architecture
  39. How to Build Good Software with AI — Not How You’ve Been Told AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  40. AI Agents Coding for Hours — What’s Really Going On? AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  41. Why I Stopped Letting AI Run SQL Oracle & Database Engineering
  42. Auth0 + ORDS on ADB - Playbook Oracle & Database Engineering
  43. Auth0 + ORDS on ADB - Architecture Oracle & Database Engineering
  44. Building Apps on Oracle with AI on a Mac AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  45. Business Rules and AI Oracle & Database Engineering
  46. AI Trust and Data Security Oracle & Database Engineering
  47. Agent SKILLS for Oracle database Oracle & Database Engineering
  48. Data Lakes, Operational Reporting and Enterprise BI Data Architecture
  49. AI and Data AI Architecture
  50. Oracle SQL and MCP Oracle & Database Engineering

2019

  1. Microservices and Devops ? What would Adam Smith think … Microservices & APIs
  2. Removing the Object Relational Impedance Data Architecture
  3. Why developers and DBAs just don't get on Data Architecture
  4. Bridging the Gap between Data Discovery and Execution Data Architecture
  5. How to optimise your read-only Bigdata storage model Data Architecture
  6. Operational Reporting and Enterprise BI Data Architecture
  7. Just what is Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise Architecture
  8. Data Lake Top Tips Data Architecture
  9. Building a Data Driven Organisation Data Architecture
  10. Data Platform Data Architecture
  11. Friday night moan ….. Fashion driven IT Friday Coffee
  12. Microservices and GDPR Microservices & APIs
  13. Securing your data Data Security
  14. Microservices and Business Processes Microservices & APIs
  15. Some thoughts on Orchestration and Choreography Microservices & APIs
  16. Architecture Advent Enterprise Architecture