Proteus 2004 In the early 2000s (peak Kimball–star-schema-business-intelligence era), my team launched a data warehouse at a hospital in New Jersey. We were a scrappy, hard-working team and wanted people to get excited by no longer needing IT intervention for custom reports about patient stay lengths and insurance companies who weren’t paying us. Alas, the phrase…

Programmers of a Certain Age If you’re a software engineer of a certain age–working before the first dot com, let’s say–you might remember when software engineers were mere programmers. You might also remember that programming was a job and not a lifestyle. You weren’t in “tech,” you worked for the electric company, writing the code for…