You might think that automation is always good. You might even think that the more automation the better. I don’t blame you. I used to think that too. As I have briefly discussed before in many situations automation might be dangerous. It’s the peculiar spot of being 90% there. In my exp...

The big elephant in the room is the human element of automation. I have alluded to my stance on that in the previous posts but I wanted to dedicate a whole article to that. We can classify automation based on the scope of its reach. The large-scale automation encompasses the whole roles or even whol...

This is a story we usually encounter: A company gathers vasts amounts of data, but then it just sits there and gathers dust. Usually, the main culprit is fragmentation. Sometimes it is physical fragmentation. One piece lives on one system and other lives on a different one. Usually, that is also exa...