Directions
10/29/18 My wife called me for the third time, and I could hear that she was working hard to remain calm but was undeniably at the end of her rope. She had missed the freeway exit.…
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Where Is Your Configuration Source of Truth?
10/25/18 Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrat…
My Affection for AI
10/24/18 In my last post, I mentioned one of the basic use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a modern network. AI can be utilized to not only bridge the informational gaps …
Am I Automating Myself Out of a Job?
10/24/18 Is our contribution measured by what we’re doing or how we’re doing it? Are we providing value or are we just getting caught up in what’s exciting? How do we ensure that w…
A Buyer’s Guide to Selecting the Best ITSM Tool
10/23/18 You must completely understand and apply your current and eventual needs as a business, as well as the current and anticipated needs of your customers, to ITSM tool evalua…
Monitoring, Tracing, and Observability: Choose Two?
10/19/18 While it’s inevitable that new technologies usually create new business opportunities, they also often create new problems for IT pros to solve. It’s a natural cycle for o…
Death by a Thousand Cuts – A Driver for Network Automation
10/19/18 At what point does the frequency and volume of “it will only take a second to change” become too much to bear and force us to adopt a network automation strategy? Where is…
Top IT Knowledge Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
10/18/18 Implementing an IT knowledge management strategy isn’t necessarily intuitive for every company and every IT department, but it is quickly becoming among the expectations o…
You Are Here – Perimeter Security
10/18/18 In part 1 of this series, we covered some of the most prevalent and most promising cybersecurity models and frameworks available today. These are all tools that can help y…
What I Did (and Learned) On My Coding Vacation
10/17/18 For THWACKcamp 2018, I had a chance to return to a task/skill I haven’t really done much of in a while: programming. That may be a surprise for some people, so let me expl…
Application Performance Monitoring: What is it All About? How Do We Get Started?
10/17/18 What Is It All About? You may or may not have heard of application performance monitoring or APM. You may also have heard the term APM used in the context of application p…
How to Build a Successful IT Self-Service System
10/16/18 The following post goes over the fundamentals of building out an IT self-service portal in some detail, giving you the basis from which to begin your project. The post How…