Life Moves Pretty Fast

Driving my soon-to-be granddaughter to school today (my son is getting married and will adopt the young lady), we saw a dead armadillo, a turtle in the road (rescued it) and an escaped cow (left it alone). THEN... old soon-to-be granddad had forgotten lunch, so had to deliver that back at the school (cow must have gone back into its field). But only after I caught my son's dog which had slipped his collar while I was walking him. Oh, AND, I've still got work to do, including writing this editorial.

Anyway, how's your day going?

I may not have mentioned this previously, but I work for Redgate Software. I love the job. A lot. However, let me tell you about one of our products, Redgate Monitor. It started life as a monitoring tool for SQL Server. Now it also supports PostgreSQL. Oh, and we have limited Oracle and MySQL support as well with much more to come. All the cloud platforms are in there. In fact, there are eight (8) teams of developers working on the product right now. This means, almost every time I demo the product, I get to say the phrase, "Oh, that's new." Keeping up is frequently just an act of discovery.

There is a lot going on in the world, in technology, in our lives. Keeping up with it, well, ain't always easy. But, keep up we must. However, don't forget the Ferris Bueller quote: Live moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you may miss it.

Grant Fritchey

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