Modern software design sucks eggs. When you use an application like YouTube, you expect the primary purpose is to find certain videos you want to watch. Instead, you realize its purpose is to keep your eyeballs on the screen. When you use Microsoft Teams, you realize the purpose of the application is to tell you […]

At Deft Flux, we value Relationships, Humor, and Beauty.  When we say we value relationships, it means we sacrifice technology on the altar of relationships (not the other way round); it means we value people over mammon; it means we believe efficiency often comes at a price that we are unwilling to pay.  We bend technology to […]

Recently, we have made a determination. If you are standing up an enterprise database to support mission critical applications, Oracle is the only database worth considering. Microsoft SQL Server is fine as far as you can throw it. If you plan to go beyond a mid-tier application, however, you will eventually wish you had used […]