Mike Fowler

CTO @synalogik. Software, Data & ML Engineer. Lover of music & literature. Father of sons & daughters. Trekkie, gamer & multi-intrumentalist. Powered by coffee.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

You've never truly listened to an #album until you've closed your eyes and let your mind bathe in the #music from the moment the needle drops until it rides the label.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Seriously @AmazonUK ? You've sent me two damaged books as brand new but when I go to replace it again, you refuse offering only a refund but you still have stock, just £15 more expensive, an increase of over 41%!! I'm pretty sure Trading Standards would have some thoughts on this

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@StagecoachMids Thank you. The occasional issue is to be expected, but beyond occasional late arrivals, all the other buses have been fine. But there's something about the Monday 11:40 which has just not been seen the last two weeks alone.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@StagecoachMids Whats happening with the 11:40 Monday Bidford-Stratford 28? Since starting college in September, 5 out of 12 times it's not come so I have to take an hour out of my day to get my son there. As a single working dad, this is a huge drain on my working day.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@NintendoStoreUK They look great!

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@xkcd G'day buddy!

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Anyone adopting products from these companies, and especially Elastic, will have to expect they will be charged at some point based on the whims of the "license of the year". (2/2)

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

How do they expect us to ever trust them again? This reversion three years later is awkward, but it most be noted too that they kickstarted the shift to closed source licensing that has infected most of the “our OSS is our product” businesses. https://t.co/HJyrxbew1n (1/2)

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@donkersgood Wow. I'm so glad they never stopped believing in OSS, but how do they expect us to ever trust them again?

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Loving the new @DOOM + DOOM II! Achieved 6 achievements in the first level, 16 by the time I finished. The IDKFA soundtrack rocks, but the fist and chainsaw achievements aren't registering.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@tom98784 @jeffbarr @ranman It was such a perfect fit for audit use cases, such as tracking billable usage of our SaaS offering. The migration blog post was a joke - as much as I love Postgres, it's not an immutable ledger!

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@jo_byden @jeffbarr @ranman There is truth here. I used to work for a AWS Managed Services Premier Partner and AWS was very helpful with some of our very big spend customers. At a scale up now and AWS is nowhere to be seen.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@derjanni @jeffbarr Me too. It's such a perfect for audit data and the Aurora migration post completely misses the point of having unmodifiable, write once, read many data.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@jeffbarr @ranman ... and QLDB and ...? Classic Google move and why we don't use them. I know about QLDB because we use it and have a year to get off. That's development time I could've used to try new AWS services, and I'll now be wary of surprise deprecation. Where's the customer obsession?

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Go back a few years, and Heartbleed and Shellshock were a different story. The key is how you respond to these crises, and we'll learn over the coming days who has decent disaster recovery in place and who doesn't.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

25 years of running Linux pays off overnight. #CrowdStrike

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Seriously @AmazonUK quitting #AmazonPrime is worse than a bad break up! After cancelling you've nagged me on every screen, and now that it's over, you're offering me Prime on every screen. You're not convincing me to return, you're convincing me I need to shop elsewhere.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@PenguinUKBooks It's gotta be @DuneNovels

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@ProgMagazineUK @MarillionOnline @yesofficial @StevenWilsonHQ @RthompsonMusic @nordicgiants @LouisePCrane @marjanasemkina @billfishermusic @EsotericArts @SonicbondP Still one of my very favourite albums!

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

@scihan @kelseyhightower It's a very thought provoking book, and be hard on yourself to instill the discipline. It's remarkable how mentally refreshing things are once you've minimised.

[Mike Fowler @mlfowler_]

Thanks @romero, I finally have an excuse to display my old @DOOM 2 floppies, a surviving Christmas present from 1996. I think this will look nice next to it's big box and the Sigil big boxes.