Do you like to play video games like I do? Recently, I discussed using skills taken from gaming to level up your career. Once I started thinking about the skills you pick up in video games that are transferable nontechnical skills, I couldn’t stop thinking about them. By now, you may have noticed I like to talk about how…
Although it’s still quite hot in Texas, summer is coming to a close. Kids are back in school, and—in case you missed it—SWUG is back in person for the first time in a long time in the U.S. We had a great time in London a few months ago, and this time, we’re hanging out on our home turf in Austin. I’m excited to see and…
Hey THWACKers! Welcome back for week 2 in machine learning (ML). In my last post, Does Data Have Ethics? Data Ethic Issues and Machine Learning, you may have noticed I mentioned "evil" four times, but also mentioned "good" four times. Well, you're in luck. After all that talk about evil and ethics, I want to share with you…
Of all the different sets of IT life coaching tricks IT pros pick up, monitoring may be the most wide-ranging area and therefore the hardest to nail down in a single blog. After all, how many network techniques are equally valid here? And therein lies the actual secret—the tricks collected by monitoring experts have little…
In my last post WHEN BEING AN EXPERT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH: MASTER OF ALL TRADES, JACK OF NONE, you all shared some great insight on how you were able to be find ways to be successful as individual SMEs and contributors, and how you could navigate the landscape of an organization. This week, I’d like to talk about silo…
In part one, I shared advice and insight on the topics of learning and implementing with intent. It’s been a while since the event, and I’m still marinating on the words of the lovely speakers from the Women in Tech Global Conference 2022. Today, I want to discuss more of this advice and insight for careers and dig into a…
The SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022 showed us complexity is the biggest challenge in IT overall. It’s so severe we could even call it a real problem, not just a challenge. Most responses point toward implementing new tools and technologies when looking for the reasons at the root of the cause, followed by acknowledging…
It’s summertime. Vacations are rampant and events are ongoing. We hope everyone is getting some much-needed R&R as we approach the midpoint of the year. The SolarWinds Observability Roadshow is ongoing through June, so check that out if you’re interested in getting more information on Hybrid Cloud Observability in person…
Here we are again! This is part 3 of 3 on my adventure to create a highly available Docker environment. What did we do so far? - Created a distributed filesystem with Ceph - Set up a Docker Swarm and deployed Traefik and Portainer What’s left to do? As you might have noticed, my design runs with a single point of failure,…
I wanted to pick up where I left the scene here, so this time, I’m running a Docker Swarm with a little management and monitoring. What Is Docker Swarm? Just in case some folks aren’t exactly sure what a Swarm is, it’s basically a clustering of individual Docker hosts. They create what’s called a routing mesh, and instead…
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