Java is still widely taught in universities, but far less commonly chosen for new work in practice. This article reframes the question “Should I learn Java?” as a problem of context, career intent, and developer productivity, drawing on real-world demand rather than syllabus inertia.
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From 20-year-old warehouse SCDs to a modern temporal backbone you can trust. This article lays out a practical, regulator-aware playbook for migrating legacy EDW SCD dimensions to a modern SCD2 Bronze layer in a medallion/lakehouse architecture. It covers what you are really migrating (semantics, not just tables), how to treat the EDW as a source system, how to build canonical SCD2 Bronze, how to run both platforms in parallel, and how to prove to auditors and regulators that nothing has been lost or corrupted in the process.
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This article defines Operational Technology (OT) as distinct from traditional IT, highlighting its core characteristics, such as real-time control, safety-critical processes, long-lifecycle assets, and minimal security by design. It is the first in a short series of articles that argues that failure to recognise OT environments as such leads to systemic cybersecurity blind spots, particularly in sectors like healthcare, logistics, and building management.
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