Five Reasons Why Python Is Popular
10/06/22 One of my first projects as a consultant created a web application for a small tax software company in Omaha, Nebraska. They were looking to improve their online presence …
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John Morehouse
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The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them
10/06/22 When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM produ…
Differentiating Between SLO vs. SLA vs. SLI: What They Are and How to Improve Them
10/04/22 Recently, technology roles have become more generalized—cloud computing, for instance, requires a broader knowledge of technologies like storage and network. As technology…
Why You Need to Automate DevOps
09/28/22 When I began my career in IT more than two decades ago, most organizations had multiple silos of application development teams. Each team would be responsible for a single…
What is System Integration? How Your Organization Can Benefit and Implement
08/25/22 Most IT systems don’t operate in a vacuum—they have dependencies on other systems. And as organizations attempt to grow while trying to maximize their bottom lines, they s…
New Features and Enhancements in SQL Server 2022
07/19/22 In the era of technology defined by cloud computing, features evolve at the blinding speed of continuous deployment. When large software development organizations like Mic…
Understanding the Role of a Data Steward
02/23/22 Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be a need for peop…
What Is Distributed Tracing? Key Concepts and Definition
01/28/22 Back in the day, monitoring applications from end to end was—for the most part—significantly easier than it is today. Though the basics of instrumentation and observabilit…
Understanding the Role of a Data Steward
12/09/21 Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be a need for peop…
Sensitive Data Management – Working With Sensitive Data in Regulated Industries
11/04/21 Let’s face it—the harsh reality, seen often in news stories today, is that security breaches are going to happen. In today’s world of cybercriminals and nation-state attac…
Exploring Your Data Universe
08/10/21 You can learn a lot about an organization by looking at their data. For example, if I see “LoanToValue” (LTV) or “CollateralValue,” I could surmise they deal with financia…