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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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Is Google to IBM as Apple is to Apple?

The Agile Manager

Most corporate technology people (working in a department known as "Information Systems" as opposed to "Information Technology") didn’t take microcomputers all that seriously. There were lots of different combinations of architectures, operating systems and CPUs. There also wasn’t clearly a “killer app” for them. Toys, really.

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It’s Back to the Future for Flat Files … Part Three

Actian

Let’s look at why flat files are not optimal in handling this confluence of new compute resources and the desire to leverage them for the coming fusion of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Then in the next blog, I covered why embedded developers are reluctant to use databases.