What is the best way to manage database schema migrations in 2026? Since this sort of thing is getting easier with AI tooling, I spent some time doing a survey across a bunch of recognizable multi-contributor open source projects to see how they do database schema change management....
State of the Map Europe 2025 (SotM Eu 2025) took place in November in Dundee. This is a collection of posts following the event, to tell you how it went and help future organisers. You may wish to just read my personal highlights of the conference. We sent out a survey link to all delegates to...
This is a more thorough coverage of one of the topics that came up in my recent BSC25 talk "Assuming As Much As Possible"You use arrays all the time.The number of elements they need is often determined at runtime.There many different alternatives for representing these, with different...