Haven't posted in a while, but it's my favorite time of year again! Nope, not winter, but bow season! It recharges the batteries and cleanses the soul to go sit in the woods for hours. A couple weeks ago I picked up my son after spending a morning deer hunting and we were headed home …
Author: William Wood
Director of Database Architecture for a small private SaaS software company in the Saint Louis area.
The Beamer Saga
There are horror stories of unscrupulous car dealerships, mechanics, and their nefarious dealings, but many times this is chalked up to urban myth and legend. That is until it happens to you. There are great dealers, mechanics, and mechanic shops out there that are top notch and do right by their customers, but as with …
Heads in the CLOUD
I have been pondering this post for quite some time. It literally has been floating around in the back of my mind. CLOUD, it has been everywhere for many years now. Vendors started popping up and businesses rushed to adopt the CLOUD craze, like other IT and Tech crazes past, present, and most assuredly future. …
ITIL
Going through the ITIL material and so far it appears to be a pretty good framework for IT service and development. Much of it being common sense applied in an analytical method. In my book, Migrating to MariaDB, I alluded to my approach for projects and as it turns out the methodologies are similar in …
Ghosting
The thing that drew me to work in the tech industry was the perpetual learning. Easily bored, it is the perfect vehicle for my thirst for knowledge, analytical proclivities, problem solving skills, and creativity. As I re-entered the job market it has also been a learning experience. Things have obviously changed in the past 10 …
Data Security, Audits, and MariaDB
There are many security layers above that of the database, from a security standpoint, however one cannot rely on the other layers alone when it comes to protecting sensitive data. In my book, Migrating to MariaDB, I go into detail on this, specifically in regards to evaluating a potential database solution for deployment in a …
Interesting Job Market
As I have forayed into the job market over the past couple weeks it seems a little like I have entered a strange dimension...to quote Mr. Serling: "a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just …
