Technical experimentation, discovery, and musings.
Looking for work after downsizing at your former employer? Feeling depression take over and losing yourself to the negative feelings and emotions of what seems to be a hopeless job market? You are not alone!!! We have a problem, and it needs to be addressed.
Addressing the challenges faced by individuals in the tech industry is not a pleasant topic, yet it is increasingly vital to shed light on the prevalent issues. A growing number of individuals within the industry are grappling with heightened levels of depression, amplified by long working hours, job uncertainty, and the soaring costs of living.
I spend a lot of time on the cli... Since you're here, I assume you do too. In this post, I am going to show you a couple of my bash functions that greatly simplify my (work) life..
Startups -- it's time to get scrappy! But what does that mean? Well, I suppose I could call it gettin' grizzly... But that still doesn't really explain what I'm talking about. Fortunately, it does start to get you thinking and imagining where I could possibly be going with this...
In many engineers' minds, Windows had fallen off the face of the earth (like my blog!) as a viable engineering platform. With MacOS as a solid mainstream player, and many hardcore linux engineers like myself, what was Microsoft going to do to get engineers to take them seriously again?
Wow, lot's more content, right? Sorta, but not really. I finally got around to migrating the content from my old site over to this one. For the most part, everything is the same. I did make one exception, the 'Hero-Villain' post isn't a post anymore. Now, it has become part of 'About' and is titled 'Villain Lore'.
I know, I know, what the hell am I doing talking about windows, right? Well, unfortunately, even I get stuck having to run it in some instances, like when a vendor we work with uses a vpn that is only supported in win32. On the bright side, it is just a vm.
Ok, you're back. I'm confident one of the first questions you are going to be asking is, "Why are you writing another article to define 'devops', you already did that." Well, to clarify, I did not define devops, I described it. Now, I am going to actually give you what everyone in the industry has been in search of. An actual, real life definition for the craze 'devops'.
First things first, this post is not intended to be an attack. It is going to go over what my own feelings were with #AnsibleFest, which I attended yesterday for my birthday gift from my wife. If you were there, you may agree, you may disagree. All in all, it is an opinion that I myself have of the situation.
I cannot even begin to count how many times I have wanted to run a speedtest against speedtest.net, but since I was on a cli only server, I was left frustrated.
A while back, I started using Proxmox as my default vm platform. It’s actually a really nice setup. Powerful web ui. KVM and/or OpenVZ. Free/Community version. Overall, not bad.
Ok, I am on a slight roll tonight. Might as well share another one of my secrets with my readers. Many of us in the industry have been plagued over the years by “What tools are there besides visio for me to do my diagrams?”
As anyone who consults to multiple clients knows, ssh-agent can be a lifesaver, but it can equally be a huge hindrance.
Well, by now we have all heard of and had to deal with the recent ramifications of HeartBleed on the impact it has had on our servers and services.
OMG! I’ve been doing it wrong!!!! At least, that seems to be what ScriptRock’s Blog entry would have me (and quite possibly, you too?) believe...
Push, or pull? That is the question of the day.
What is push and what is pull? These are simple principles, but can be difficult to explain so I am going to use monitoring to do that for me.
Now here is an interesting topic; one that very few have any understanding or idea what it actually means. What exactly is DevOps?
Ask any modern technology based company if they have a DevOps team, and they will probably say yes. Ask that company to describe DevOps and you will be amazed by how varied the answers are.