Having and Testing Backups is Key to Running Systems
06/28/19 The title of this post says it all. In IT, we’ve said for years you need to take and test backups regularly to ensure your systems are being backed up correctly. There’s a…
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Are ETL Processes Still Relevant for Today’s IT Automations
04/11/19 Relatable chatbots are the present and future of ITSM, so learn more about why it’s important to develop their backstories. The post Are ETL Processes Still Relevant for T…
Must-Have Tools for the Enterprise Data Center
04/08/19 When VM performance isn’t monitored, you can miss a CPU overload or max out memory. When the right enterprise monitoring tools are in place, it’s easier to manage the work…
Facebook Outage 2019: SysAdmins, Hug Your Servers and Tell Them You Love Them
03/15/19 This week’s Facebook outage is in the news right now, and it’s inevitable that some people are going to rush to post their hot-as-the-surface-of-the-sun takes. Thankfully,…
The Pros and Cons of Open-source Tools
02/15/19 Cost plays a factor in most IT decisions. Whether the costs are hardware- or software-related, understanding how the tool’s cost will affect the bottom line is important. …
To Infinity and Beyond!
12/06/18 I’ve covered a lot in this series of posts around artificial intelligence (machine learning); from the beginning (Not Another AI Post…) to why I love it (My Affection for …
Implementing a Systems Monitoring Tool: What’s in it for You?
09/26/18 I don’t think there’s anyone out there that truly loves systems monitoring. I may be wrong, but traditionally, it’s not the most awesome tool to play with. When you think …
How to Use Monitoring Tools to Sniff Out the Root Cause
09/12/18 When it comes to IT, things go wrong from time to time. Servers crash, memory goes bad, power supplies die, files get corrupted, backups get corrupted…there are so many th…
Top 5 Best Practices for Systems Monitoring
08/15/18 Systems monitoring has become a very important piece of the infrastructure puzzle. There might not be a more important part of your overall design than having a good syste…
How to Eliminate Silos Using DevOps
08/09/18 For too long, development and operations teams have operated in a vacuum, independent of one another. These silos limit communication between teams, often at the expense o…
The Human Side of IT
08/09/18 The technology industry is about technology. Technology is the fastest changing industry there is, but the often-overlooked part of this industry is the humans that work w…
Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture
06/21/18 In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavi…