First Impressions of the 2017 Dell Chromebook 11 3180
After a number of false-starts over the last year I finally found another Chromebook I can keep. The third in our family. I’ve returned a…
Matt Franz
My 2016 Reading List
Professional & Management
A Windows Container Guide for Linux Folks
Windows containers?
Exploring AWS CloudWatch Logs with jq and jid
AWS CloudWatch has been around forever and CloudWatch Logs has been available for the last few years, but I’ve really only started using…
Three questions hiring managers should always ask themselves about candidates
Three questions hiring managers should always ask themselves about potential candidates Hiring is tough (and doesn’t get easier) I’ve been a hiring manager for the last 7 years or so. Over this time, I’ve probably reviewed nearly 500 resumes, screened 100–150 candidates, interviewed 60–70 people
Saturday Morning with Filebeat-Redis-ELK
So I’m no stranger to log management. I worked Tenable and taught classes on LCE. I have run Ops teams that used Splunk or ran Threat…
My Journey to Secure the Business from Within
A Lost Decade
2015: the Year I Learned to Commute to India
In the past year and a half, I’ve made the trip between Newark and New Delhi three times and I have another trip coming up later this…
First Impressions of Ubuntu on Acer c720
I’m a ChromeOS fanboy. I admit it. I see ChromeBooks as the true (and best) incarnation of the “Desktop Linux” and I’ve been running Linux…
Grading your Service Ops Team
As an Ops manager responsible for a SaaS product, I’m always thinking about how I can do better as a manager and how my team can be better…