df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

Done. Thanks.

Thanks for the update. I don't work in this space but it's always interesting to hear about the challenges and approaches taken to try to address those challenges.

This is truly the never ending battle. One of the most difficult things is finding / detecting vulnerabilities that you don't know about yet.

Blue skies and tailwinds wabbott​. We'll miss your smiling face and cheerful personality. Thanks for all your contributions.

It sounds great, but at the end of the day the vendors have to have some win themselves. If enought people pushed for it that might make it happen, but it's going to fall fairly down the list when more important things come up. I also think having a universal URL and unified language would be a hacker's dream network, so…

Had to double check my schedule to make sure I wasn't missing this one. Yep - signed up and looking forward to it.

For us it was a cloud integration service we use to stuff data into our CRM from various data feeds. I suppose it's really hybrid because there is an on-prem piece. At any rate, it's been glitchy enough to be annoying without actually failing completely. At the moment (knock on wood) it's fine but since we never did…

Thanks for the post. Interesting way of looking at it. I certainly agree with the software defined bit - that's basically what cloud services are doing. I'm wondering if we're going to start to see some sort of silicon based container platform emerge where the o/s becomes almost unnecessary. It will be interesting to see.

Oh my gosh yes. Nailed it ian0x0r​. This stuff drives me nuts. Of course it works because so many folks are new to the industry or don't know the history so the new package makes them think the insides are new as well.

Nice writeup ntimms​. Thanks!

Thanks again for this series. Really good set of posts.

Really like the Nasa list for project managers. There are a lot of real nuggets in there. Thanks.

Totally agree. I'm always skeptical when the sales folks/pundits/marketing folks spew masses of information that's basically saying it's the greatest thing ever without touching on the actual use cases or all the caveats/prereqs to make it actually work the way they say.

I am thankful for getting to work with (and learn from) so many great people over the years. Although I have a lot of vendors and particular pieces of equipment that have won my loyalty (and more than a few that haven't) the people are the most important part of IT. I've been fortunate to work with some really outstanding…

Ditto for me. In fact it took so long better offers came along and I abandoned before they ever made up their mind. Glacial would be pretty apropos.

Great post Leon. Learned some things I didn't know about Mr Lee. Great tribute.

Thanks. Look forward to hearing your thoughts and what you discover through the process.

Great job #TeamThwack. Looks great. We appreciate all your hard work.

dang. i read it carefully, double checked the book just to be sure, and still got it wrong. :< 

I'm pretty sure there is some sort of blockchain solution to improving honesty, or at least providing an "honesty index" so you can accept or dismiss based on the score.

It's been interesting to see how the edge computing concept has evolved over the years. We used to use Inktomi cache boxes at the edge before the advent of distributed cloud. Now we're starting to see it done with applications and enterprise data. Like most things there is always a price to pay with increased complexity.…

Just remove everything past the ? mark in the URL and it will work. VM Sprawl Control | SolarWinds

Great post sqlrockstar​. This is so true. We all deal with it on a daily basis, especially those of us that are DBAs. The part that drives me nuts is the end users that think all data is good no matter what, even when it is clearly garbage. We've got a boatload of useless data in our CRM that the end users refuse to allow…

I've had ok experiences with test workloads on VMs. Production workloads have been much more problematic. Latency, weird glitches, unexplained and intermittent slowness have been the order of the day. Given how affordable physical is we've moved all production workloads back to physical.

AR Navigation would be very cool.

Thanks for keeping this series going. It's been interesting. I think the only way you can get what you describe at the moment is to build it yourself.

DPA rocks. This should be fun.

Thanks for this series. Very interesting read and it will be a good reference going forward.

Woo Hoo! It's our favorite thing! Registered and anxiously awaiting the start of another great ThwackCamp.