df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

Good post. Thanks. Totally agree. One of the things I've seen over and over is an over emphasis on cost without taking things like lifecycle, backups, maintenance, manageability and future expansion into account to the overall detriment of the enterprise

I'm doing much better in this than the NCAAs. Bracket is completely toast there.

If you're on Linux/Unix, tripwire is probably the most popular. Easy to tune to filter out whatever you're looking for as well. Redhat ships with a logwatch tool as well that will email you daily with default important events.

I expect to see a lot more push toward containers (word of the day today!) and microservices. What will stay the same (hopefully) is the continual refinement and improvement of existing processes and robust automation and monitoring.

Me too. Had it right Friday, now I have it wrong. I know there were two possible answers, but what he says at 17:15 is word for word one of the answers, and the second one doesn't come along til quite a bit later. Argh.

In no particular order * make sure you participate (not just lurk) in communities like Thwack and get involved in areas that are out of scope for what you're currently doing * read everything you can get your hands on, not just about technology, but business, economics, management. become a life long learner * stay up with…

I'm not quite as jaded as graeme.brown​, but I too have been through so many of these things I couldn't count them all. The names change, but they are all basically the same concepts dressed up in different clothes. I absolutely agree with the need for it, in fact it's so obvious I almost feel like it's silly to even…

Congrats. What a great story. It often seems like things that initially look like they will be very negative have fantastic and unexpected endings that in hindsight you wouldn't trade for anything.

Love the dirty data post. The video is priceless. Should be required watching for anyone involved in dealing with data on any level.

As always, thanks for a bunch of interesting links. Really enjoyed the one about the Fourth - there were quite a few there I didn't know. Interesting that in this batch we have a helping of "all databases are going to be in the cloud soon" with a side of "S3 bucket with a gold mine of credentials". Seems like a hackers…

I went back and checked - it's on the right side of Geek Speak below the fold. "Top Rated Content". That's even better than most liked.

Excellent post. l'm going to pass this one around. 

Thanks for the post @"orafik" , good write up. This really applies to anyone, not just Fed IT folks. Containers have so many benefits, but definitely take some getting used to and new tools/techniques before they really become useful.

Man that takes me back. No kidding. That dude was a beast. We also had Castlerock and Cabletron Spectrum back in the day. Not even remotely user friendly.

Thanks for another set of interesting links. Never would have guessed drunken shopping was a thing, or how profitable it is. Talk about an opportunity for really fleecing people. Sadly I'm not surprised about Office Depot. Way too much opportunity to take advantage of folks without a lot of tech savvy.

Congrats to all the winners. Thanks for another great mission yumdarling​!

I added them up from the main web site and had no problem coming up with the right answer.

Ditto here. I know it helps so much, but as a major introvert it's been one area in career development that has been a real struggle for me.

Thanks for the post. It sounds great, but one wonders how long it will take for that to happen. You'd just about have to have a single vendor architecture. No way everyone is going to agree on any sort of API that will be robust enough to actually pull of SDN in a multi vendor network.

Great post sqlrockstar​. Hadn't heard the ROT term before. Love it. We run into this all the time. Somehow folks have the notion that all data is good and valuable even when it's clearly garbage. Trying to weed this stuff out seems like a sisyphean task at times.

Amen to that.

This sounds like a step in the right direction. Let's hope the reporting doesn't become yet another instance of a checkbox that has to be checked without ever taking action.,

Packets arrive a bit at a time the watcher sees them pass first quickly, then slowly like sparks from a flame and tracks where are they bound and whence did they come gathering data that the admin will use to cast the incantation bringing order again from chaos

Excellent post adatole (yes, I just now found this from an obscure reference I ran into somewhere on Thwack) Now I've got to go back and watch the movie.

Really looking forward to this. On a side note,I actually like December. Cooler days are much better for us distance runners, and I've been watching Orion traverse the sky during my early morning runs. Love it.

Good post. Really enjoying the series. Thanks!

Things I'd like to leave behind in 2019 * Rogue IT by clueless amateurs * Robocalls * DBT (Drive By Taskings) * DBM (Drive By Meetings) * Goals/Initiatives in other departments that are entirely (budget, manpower, brains, everything) dependent on IT for their accomplishment * Silverlight * All the special snowflakes -…

Good post. Enjoying the series. Thanks. Lock in is definitely one of those fine line things. There are areas (AWS for one) where someone could argue that we are locked in, but in our case AWS offers more wins for us than any other platform or collection of technologies (and yes we do use both Google and Azure). I…

Good article and excellent points. To me this is one of the hardest things to get people to grok. They either don't bother to learn the big picture or get so in the weeds they lose track of what they are trying to accomplish and end up wasting a lot of time doing things that aren't likely to address the issue (or they have…

Sounds awesome. Hope everything goes well for you all and you have a great conference.