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…
The other day, I experienced an outage in my home data center. One of my Docker container hosts stopped working, and while most of its containers aren’t essential, one of them had an impact on a different system running on another server. The beauty of microservices. I didn’t even notice it until I wondered why my stuff…
I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing a certain app he loves on his new phone, but he wished the creators would fix a problem with the way it displayed information, so it looks like it does when he logs in…
As threats to K-12 schools rise, VP Brandon Shopp offers four solutions K – 12 schools can implement to combat the growing number of cybersecurity attacks. Cyberattacks on our nation’s K–12 schools are on the rise. Since 2016, there have been 1,180 cyber-related incidents in K–12 public schools, and this number continues…
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