Looking back at the year that has been and the year ahead
Category: Personal
2022 Year in Review
Happy new year folks! I hope everyone enjoyed the festive period and was able to get some sort of a break to spend time with those closest to you. This past year has been a busy one personally and quite a journey with this blog too. With that in mind I thought it was worth […]
New Beginnings
This week sees the closing of a chapter in my career. It was starting to feel like the right time for an all-around change and after a lot of thought and support of close friends and family I set out to find my next adventure. So, after nearly 15 years working through various roles at […]
This month’s invitation from Kenneth Fisher asks us to share our first tech job. As he points out there are a lot of DBAs who don’t start out working with databases and we slowly succumb to the dark side (my words, not his), intentionally or otherwise. During a gap year whilst at university I joined […]
Hello World
My name is Andy Brownsword. I write code and tinker with technology. Day to day I’m a DBA working out of the UK and dabbling with various things which come my way or interest me. For years I’ve heard the developer community advocating blogging and having realised how much I depend on the content shared […]