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In a recent episode of a popular tech podcast, I heard the hosts say, “If you can’t automate, you and your career are going to get left behind.” Some form of this phrase has been uttered on nearly every tech podcast over the last few years. It’s a bit of hyperbole, but has some obvious truth to it. IT isn’t slowing down.…
We talk a lot about professional development these days—how to develop your speaking or writing skills to make you a better practitioner. But what if you’ve reached a certain point in your career and you feel it’s time for a change? Do you stay a technologist, or do you make the leap to management? It’s a conversation I’ve…
We come to you today with a late-breaking breaking postscript! When we last left our IT hero, they were asking themselves deep and probing questions like Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud and I’m Still On-Premises, Is That OK? As they go about modernizing their IT organization, they cry out, “What if IaaS isn’t not…
Following up on Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud? This post is part two of taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. If you stop and think for a moment, cloud computing is still in its youth. EC2 has only been a public offering since 2006. Gartner first treated “the…
Welcome back to this series of blogs on my real world experiences of Hybrid IT. If you’re just joining us, you can find previous posts here, here and here. So far I have covered a brief introduction to the series, public cloud costing and experiences, and how to build better on-premises data centres. So far, I’ve covered a…
As we head into the final post of this series, I want to thank you all for reading this far. For a recap of the other parts, please find links below: Part 1 – Introduction to Hybrid IT and the series Part 2 – Public Cloud experiences, costs and reasons for using Hybrid IT Part 3 – Building better on-premises data centres…
How should somebody new to coding get started learning a language and maybe even automating something? Where should they begin? It's probably obvious that there are a huge number of factors that go into choosing a particular language to learn. I'll look at that particular issue in the next post, but before worrying about…
You've decided it's time to learn how to code, so the next step is to find some resources and start programming your first masterpiece. Hopefully, you've decided that my advice on which language to choose was useful, and you're going to start with either Python, Go or PowerShell. There are a number of ways to learn, and a…
To paraphrase a lyric from Hamilton, Deciding to code is easy; choosing a language is harder. There are many programming languages that are good candidates for any would-be programmer, but selecting the one that will be most beneficial to each individual need is a very challenging decision. In this post, I will attempt to…
The “cloud” can mean so many things to different people. Depending on who you ask, it could mean SaaS ( software as a service ) running Salesforce in the cloud but another person may say it's running servers on AWS. The definition of cloud can be cloudy but the transition to cloud is the same regardless of what your…
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