The Dulin Report

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2015

On Managing Stress, Multitasking and Other New Year's Resolutions Jan 1, 2015 Configuring Master-Slave Replication With PostgreSQL Jan 31, 2015 Trying to Replace Cassandra with DynamoDB ? Not so fast Feb 2, 2015 On apprenticeship Feb 13, 2015 Where AWS Elastic BeanStalk Could be Better Mar 3, 2015 Finding Unused Elastic Load Balancers Mar 24, 2015 Do not apply data science methods without understanding them Mar 25, 2015 Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed Mar 31, 2015 Two developers choose to take a class Apr 1, 2015 What can Evernote Teach Us About Enterprise App Architecture Apr 2, 2015 Exploration of the Software Engineering as a Profession Apr 8, 2015 Ordered Sets and Logs in Cassandra vs SQL Apr 8, 2015 Building a Supercomputer in AWS: Is it even worth it ? Apr 13, 2015 Apple is (or was) the Biggest User of Apache Cassandra Apr 23, 2015 My Brief Affair With Android Apr 25, 2015 Why I am not Getting an Apple Watch For Now: Or Ever Apr 26, 2015 The Clarkson School Class of 2015 Commencement May 5, 2015 The Clarkson School Class of 2015 Commencement speech May 5, 2015 We Need a Cloud Version of Cassandra May 7, 2015 Guaranteeing Delivery of Messages with AWS SQS May 9, 2015 Smart IT Departments Own Their Business API and Take Ownership of Data Governance May 13, 2015 Big Data is not all about Hadoop May 30, 2015 The longer the chain of responsibility the less likely there is anyone in the hierarchy who can actually accept it Jun 7, 2015 Your IT Department's Kodak Moment Jun 17, 2015 Attracting STEM Graduates to Traditional Enterprise IT Jul 4, 2015 Book Review: "Shop Class As Soulcraft" By Matthew B. Crawford Jul 5, 2015 The Three Myths About JavaScript Simplicity Jul 10, 2015 Social Media Detox Jul 11, 2015 Big Data Should Be Used To Make Ads More Relevant Jul 29, 2015 On Maintaining Personal Brand as a Software Engineer Aug 2, 2015 Ten Questions to Consider Before Choosing Cassandra Aug 8, 2015 What Every College Computer Science Freshman Should Know Aug 14, 2015 We Live in a Mobile Device Notification Hell Aug 22, 2015 Top Ten Differences Between ActiveMQ and Amazon SQS Sep 5, 2015 Setting Up Cross-Region Replication of AWS RDS for PostgreSQL Sep 12, 2015 I Stand With Ahmed Sep 19, 2015 Banking Technology is in Dire Need of Standartization and Openness Sep 28, 2015 IT departments must transform in the face of the cloud revolution Nov 9, 2015 Operations costs are the Achille's heel of NoSQL Nov 23, 2015 Our civilization has a single point of failure Dec 16, 2015

Social Media Detox

July 11, 2015

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I am going on a two week vacation to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. One of the things I would like to accomplish is a clean up of my social media use. Another is a detox of sorts: I want to see if I can give up daily checking and participation in Facebook.

I use my personal page on Facebook for communication with close friends and family. I do not feel comfortable having coworkers on it. I keep my Personal Facebook page mostly private. I do not want a situation where things I do at work to spill into my private life, and things I do in my private life to spill into work. I don't want to constantly wonder if something that I say to my close friends and family may touch a nerve with someone at work.

For professional networking I use Twitter, LinkedIn, github, WordPress, StackOverflow, and a professional page on Facebook. I am extremely careful with what I say in these forums and I make sure my posts are based on publicly available information. Nothing I say in that media should be construed as an opinion of or about any of my employers, past, present or future¹. I voice opinions about technology, science and processes. I do not voice opinions about individuals.

With all that said, please - if you in the past followed me through my personal Facebook page and found yourself unfriended, don't take it as an offense. It means I respect you as my professional contact and I wish for our relationship to stay professional. Please follow me using professional networking tools.

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