Obstinate Continuance

Post published:September 3, 2025
Post category:Bits and Bytes
Post author:Chris LaGreca

An unyielding persistence demands a strength beyond endurance. Beyond motivation, beyond courage. It lies in depths few care to reach...

What Promises Do We Want Technology to Keep?

Post published:August 18, 2025
Post category:Bits and Bytes
Post author:Chris LaGreca

Scott Hanselman took us on a nostalgic journey in his recent TEDx talk, reflecting on 40 years of technological progress and asking: Has tech delivered on its promises?

Working with Parquet Files in Pandas

Post published:July 5, 2024
Post category:Data Engineering Python
Post author:Chris LaGreca

Apache Parquet has become one of the defacto standards in modern data architecture. This open source, columnar data format serves as the backbone of many high-powered analytics and machine learning…

Elegant Random Dates, Balanced Partitions, Python

Post published:June 27, 2024
Post category:Data Engineering Python
Post author:Chris LaGreca

I often work with time series data and find it useful to have a variety of ways to randomly generate dates. This particular example is great for evenly distributed date…

Engineer

Post published:June 6, 2024
Post category:Bits and Bytes
Post author:Chris LaGreca

This is me, an engineer, surrounded by a chaotic blend of technology and thought. Laptop open, connected peripherals; whiteboard filled with illegible mutterings, stick figures, diagrams; papers scattered and strewn…

SQL Saturday Jax 2024 – May the 4th Be With You

Post published:May 20, 2024
Post category:SQL Community
Post author:Chris LaGreca

The force was strong with this one. Concurrent with Star Wars day, the University of North Florida and the Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group (JSSUG) hosted their annual SQL Saturday…

Redundancy

Post published:April 18, 2024
Post category:Leadership
Post author:Chris LaGreca

Multi-factor authentication. Disaster recovery. Load balancing. All critical components of tech strategy. Silently working to keep the lights on, day in and day out. Without them - risk to the…

How to Build a Culture of Continuous Learning

Post published:March 28, 2024
Post category:Leadership
Post author:Chris LaGreca

One of the keys to my leadership approach involves building an environment where continual learning thrives, which I believe is essential for building an engaged and innovative engineering team. While…

Three Step Product Delivery

Post published:March 19, 2024
Post category:Bits and Bytes Leadership
Post author:Chris LaGreca

It begins with vision. The reason why we are doing this thing. A great Technical Program Manager (TPM) must be able to clearly articulate the vision. If the team buys…

Throughput in Words

Post published:March 12, 2024
Post category:Bits and Bytes Leadership
Post author:Chris LaGreca

It may seem counterintuitive, but oftentimes the thing that needs doing should not be done first. If the optimal path to deliver the thing is not yet realized, then optimizing…