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2026

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