df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

Congrats to all the winners - there were some great prizes this month. And as always, thanks for another interesting mission DanielleH​!

omg. me too. what we were supposed to type?

Great picture by the way. If we had a place that looked like that near us I'd spend a lot of time there as well.

In the last year I've had a hands on comparison between providers that have been pretty progressive in digitization of health records and what's it's like to deal with someone who is a bit behind the curve. From a patient perspective having access to digital records is transformative and helps the patient (provided they…

Same for me as well.

Hubble Telescope - reboot the gyro. Whoda thunk it?

If that roast beast tasted half as good as it looks, it must have been awesome. Thanks for the links!

Some companies seem to do this regularly with product names, even when those products have been in use and known by those names for years. Oracle is notorious for this.

Great picture by the way. Love old bridges. When I was a kid growing up in the midwest (this will really date me) on Sunday afternoons my Dad would go for a drive down some out of the way back road and we'd look for covered bridges. Back then they weren't too hard to find and we almost always found at least one if not…

Great post adatole​. The directions illustration is spot on. I think one of the most important skills you can learn (and it takes a lot of time and deliberate effort) is to be able to communicate (translate might be a better word) what you know to anyone you need to communciate with so that they actually understand. Of…

As always, thanks for another set of thought provoking links and a new book to read I got from one of them..

Thanks. Good write up. We're in the process of doing this now for some workloads to determine when (or if in some cases) they will be migrated to cloud services. Definitely have to have a good definition of what you want to accomplish before you start, as well as a really good handle on what you actually have. Too many…

And definitely looking forward to this session.

Thanks for sharing Patrick. For many of us that's a trip we'll never get to take. Sounds like there is some really cool stuff happening out there. 

Great post adatole​. Thanks for sharing something that touches all of us where we really live.

Thanks. Definitely a case of do your homework and make sure the license model (and for that matter deployment model) work for you.

ditto on Day 19

So true. There are way too many people out there that are trying to get by with just tech chops. If you don't get this stuff right you're growth potential is very limited.

Love the mini missions.

Biggest nightmare: our backup operators don't monitor the backup systems properly, we lose a critical disk on our production ERP system, and then discover there are no backups. I can recover (and have) from nearly any other scenario including flooding, but no backups mean no recovery.

Good post. Thanks.

Thanks mrlesmithjr​. Enjoying the series. We're using APM but we obviously need to dig in more to make sure we're taking full advantage of all the features available to us.

Reading through old posts obviously. Man, this is so where we've been. MRTG, custom RRdtools (me being familiar with scripting), ORCA for our Solaris boxes, Nagios, Cacti, etc. Now we're on Orion and have nearly consolidated everything we had that was custom. So much better and you only have to learn one tool.

Dude. I can almost smell the ribs. That looks awesome. As always, thanks for a bunch of interesting links.

mandevil, not at all. feel free.

Thanks for the post. So so true about technical debt. I've seen way too many things that started out as "let's just try this" and before you know it it's in production, mission critical, and no where near what you would have done if you had it to do over again. I've seen a few of these things run a decade or more before…

Congratulations @jshoenecker, @afletch and @conejo75 !

Thanks.

Thanks for the reminder. Making sure to terminate accounts promptly when an employee leaves, to add and remove privs as they change departments or roles is tedious but critical. So often the breaches are caused not some technical wizardry but by not taking care of the basics.

Definitely adding this to the "to be shared with a lot of folks" list. Thanks.