Why being a Teacher was Good Training for a Career in Ops (2013)
(Originally published on 11/13/2013 on my WordPress blog)
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First 2018 Reading List
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Fumbling through a Lambda Deploy with Terraform
What to Automate?
Last 2017 Book List
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Mid Year 2017 Reading Starts & Stops
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What I’ve been reading so far in 2017
In 2017 I’ve started a lot of books, but unfortunately I have way too many in progress. I’m hitting many of the same topics from last year…
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…
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…