The Incident Archive

 I started out blogging to help people though technical things I struggled through so they would not feel my pain. It is time to hang up my blogging hat and reinvent my message. Looking forward to one day starting a new site filled with less technical and more people related information.

So I have had a little trouble in the past finding the right person when it comes to thinking at scale and considering the breadth of a problem. Also it is difficult to determine maturity of thinking for me. Beside the obvious what, how and did you design your previous project or how would you build a search engine type questions. Explain how you would plan a <insert project here> here are a growing list of questions that I feel help me: Have you ever had to compromise you design if so why?  What is design thinking and how can it help? Drill into the minor details of a solution the person who was in the trenches so to speak will be well acquainted with the details. Ask it how difficult decisions where to make (Situational awareness questions something like) How would you handle it if your team resisted a new idea you introduced? I look out for honest heartfelt answers without jargon. With the proliferation of tools these days hiring for a technology is needless it is really just

 So now that we have two Exadata machines and have gone through the process of migrating all our applications to Exadata was it worth it. Notes: Learning curve - this was significantly greater than expected. The solution keeps evolving and the rate of change is sometimes staggering. Pros: Multi-tenant and RAC by default Speed - we had an enormous increase in performance (after tuning our queries for Exadata) It is great to have some of the hardware issues abstracted away from us. Oracles monitoring of the hardware on our system is great Cons: Cost - the solution is more expensive than what we had but you get what you pay for Loss of control in some areas and then dealing with Oracle support. What happens after a refresh cycle. All things considered it was a good move for us. Looking forward to our new move to Gen 2 and a true hybrid cloud experience.