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…