Author: Derik Hammer

If you have been following my blog, you know that I recently went through a burnout phase. Now I have begun a learning and…

Architecture choices for cultural factors I was having a discussion with one of my team members. He questioned some of our early decisions which…

Mindset framing Recovering from an infection of the responsibility virus requires us to change our mindset and to do it on faith. The over-responsible…

Doubling down on my decision to lead My new understanding of the responsibility virus has helped me view a lot of my past experiences…

I have begun this journey focused on the monkey management problem because it had to most direct impact on me to cause my burnout.…

Recent events pushed me into a burnout phase at work. This provoked a lot of things, my posting on Learning to Manage: Recovering from…

One year and nine months ago, I took my first formal management position. I stepped into the role thinking that I knew a bit…

Continuous delivery and automation are a couple of core concepts of DevOps. As a Data Professional, I have spent countless hours pushing through the…

Track: Developer / Performance Level: 200 Abstract: The DBA is constantly ringing your phone complaining about why you did not include an index to support…

Launch your database into the cloud (bacpac edition) Track: Database Administration / Data Architecture Level: 100 (Lightning Talk) Abstract: You have decided to migrate your…