df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

Thanks adatole​! Really enjoyed doing this last year and looking forward to participating again this year.

Good post. Thanks. So true on the SE bit. If they can, they will usually tell you the truth.

Excellent post as always. Looking forward to your Thwack Camp session.

Thanks for the article. I wasn't aware of the advances in quantum computing and the impact it would have on practical computing. Now I know.

Thankfully we'd been around this tree a few times, so we were pretty aware of the things to keep front of mind when specifying our environment. One thing that always seems to surprise people is how long these systems can end up being in production - often well past the time when you originally thought they would be…

No. Didn't realize I needed to.

Ditto here. Over thought the question.

We've only had Solarwinds about a year and like it a lot - very complete and powerful product Solarwinds products: NCM SAM NPM IPAM IVIM UDT DPA NTA We also use: Checkpoint Bluecoat Netscaler vCenter Cacti BigBrother IP Sentry Custom scripts Oracle Grid Control MRTG Nessus Splunk Logwatch Toad SCOM syslog

A few that haunt me. Way back in the day I was a S/36 operator. Worked for a cable network and we did all the logs on this box using JDS. The head of Traffic (lady named Kathy) came in one day and said the system was slow and proceeded to flip off the power. !!!! It took me nearly an hour to IPL the box and get it back up.…

Thought provoking as usual . One of the things that has bothered me for pretty much my entire career is how few people actually think about anything. They react, or fire fight ( or worse create fires), or learn one way of doing something and then act as if that solution will be the only one they need the rest of their…

Love the attention grabbing headline . Thumbs up on all of these - so true.

This is so true. Thanks for the post.

Your carnival picture looks like Toy Story 4. Haven't seen one like that since I was a kid. Miss them.

I've been thinking about this some more. What I would like my legacy to be? To come back in 10-20 years and find the group of folks I've mentored be not only be professionals I can be proud to have played a role in their growth, but also be passing along what they've learned to the next generation. I've got 4 or 5 I'm…

Love your title by the way. Perfect for the audience.

a superlative of geeks

Great mission this month DanielleH​. Thanks!

Belated congrats on 10 years as an MVP. Definitely an accomplishment to be proud of.

Excellent post. Couldn't agree more. Soft skills are difficult to define and see in a resume but are so essential to success.

As always, thanks for a bunch of interesting links. I hadn't heard about the social score in China, although it's hardly surprising. Big brother is watching.

So true. Hopefully you only have one of those. They always have some super funky way of "making it work" that doesn't work with anything else and causes all kinds of problems in other areas (which don't effect them so they are fine with it - they just put an SEP field around it).

Interesting post. Thanks. Couple of thoughts - buy in from senior leadership is critical. Without that you're going knowwhere. Also interesting to see how you're applying the cost analysis to the picture to show how time is being spent and give a better picture of true cost. So often in day to day ops that cost is…

I like the two part missions as well Great prizes this month.

Thanks!.

Interesting reading as always. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes for the holidays.

Love the mini missions. Thanks!

I didn't have a lot of management experience when I started down that path, but I did have some great managers leading up to that, and I watched what they did and tried to duplicate it (and I had some real duds that informed the "don't ever do this" list as well). Some of the stuff I tried didn't work, so I filtered that…

Thanks for another group of great links. The Tim Ferriss one was especially interesting. Never heard of him (which doesn't mean much - not much on social media and all the other trappings) but he makes a bunch of interesting points and it was very thought provoking. I've always thought fame brought at least as much…

This has been a blast, and I love the anti-super powers. Thanks.

Thanks for the post, good points. Looking forward to the rest of the series. I think too often the decisions around cloud are driven too much by FOMO (fear of missing out) or everyone else is doing it or resume building or something, and not by practical questions such as does it make sense for my business.