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Leon Adato

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2026 107

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  17. Why IT leaders should unpack AI before they buy
  18. The Real Reason Your IT Team Isn’t Getting Anything Done
  19. Job listings for week ending 9/04
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  21. From Pilot to Production: Why CIOs Need Better Failure, Not Less of It
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  24. Cribl Apps: Do the fun part of development
  25. Job listings for week ending 8/21
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  27. No REST for the weary
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  30. Cribl: Telemetry Gatherers
  31. Call For Papers Listings for 8/7
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  33. When the technical problem is the easy part: Lessons from wrangling telemetry at Getty Images
  34. Call For Papers Listings for 7/31
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  36. All Bait and No Fish
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  39. What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 4)
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  42. What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 3)
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  45. What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 2)
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  48. What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 1)
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  87. BLOG: How NOT to Answer the Salary Question
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  90. Zmanim-WP: Shabbat
  91. Job listings for week ending 2/6
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  93. Zmanim-WP: Common Codes, Part 4
  94. Job listings for week ending 1/30
  95. Call For Papers Listings for 1/30
  96. Zmanin-WP: Common Codes, part 3
  97. Job listings for week ending 1/23
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  99. Zmanin-WP: Common Codes, part 2
  100. Job listings for week ending 1/16
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  102. Zmanin-WP: Common Codes, part 1
  103. Job listings for week ending 1/9
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  105. Zmanim-WP: Getting Started
  106. Job listings for week ending 1/2/2026
  107. Call For Papers Listings for 1/2/2026

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  1. Job listings for week ending 12/26
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  9. …And Sometimes the Bear Gets You
  10. ZMANIM-WP: Free Time
  11. Call For Papers Listings for 11/28
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  19. Call For Papers Listings for 10/31
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  21. Semantic Caching: What We Measured, Why It Matters
  22. Job listings for week ending 10/24
  23. Call For Papers Listings for 10/24
  24. AI CURMUDGEON: AI is a backhoe
  25. Here’s the proof: What the fastest sites on the web have in common
  26. Call For Papers Listings for 10/17
  27. Job listings for week ending 10/17
  28. Software migration: Pain vs Risk
  29. Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth
  30. Job listings for week ending 10/10
  31. Call For Papers Listings for 10/10
  32. Monitoring versu… I mean AND Observability
  33. From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can’t ignore
  34. Job listings for week ending 10/03
  35. Call For Papers Listings for 10/03
  36. Content Funnel Done Right
  37. Getting Started with Traceroute
  38. Job listings for week ending 9/26
  39. Call For Papers Listings for 9/26
  40. HOW TO DEVREL: The Most Un-Natural Act
  41. Real-time detection of BGP blackholing and prefix hijacks
  42. Call For Papers Listings for 9/19
  43. Job listings for week ending 9/19
  44. Punchline, or Gut-Punch?
  45. Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is here—Now Let’s Make it Observable
  46. Call For Papers Listings for 9/12
  47. Job listings for week ending 9/12
  48. HOW TO DEVREL: The 10x DevRel
  49. Monitoring in the Age of Complexity: 5 Assumptions CIOs Need to Rethink
  50. Job listings for week ending 9/5
  51. Call For Papers Listings for 9/5
  52. Critical Requirements for Modern API Monitoring
  53. Call For Papers Listings for 8/29
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  55. Why Intelligent Traffic Steering is Critical for Performance and Cost Optimization
  56. Job listings for week ending 8/22
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  58. The $1 Million Lesson: Building a Culture of Quality Through SLAs
  59. Job listings for week ending 8/15
  60. Call For Papers Listings for 8/15
  61. When AI tools fail: How to map your AI dependencies for proactive visibility
  62. Knowing What’s Under the Hood Helps
  63. Call For Papers Listings for 8/8
  64. Job listings for week ending 8/8
  65. Cloud Monitoring’s Blind Spot: The User Perspective
  66. Job listings for week ending 8/1
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  94. HOW TO DEVREL: The Bechdel Test for Community
  95. Job listings for week ending 4/25
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  97. Hybrid Cloud – the Worst Possible Option
  98. Job listings for week ending 4/18
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  100. Time Data Series: Written In Our Stars
  101. Job listings for week ending 4/11
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  103. HOW TO DEVREL: Fuel for Your Creativity
  104. Job listings for week ending 4/4
  105. Call For Papers Listings for 4/4
  106. HOW TO DEVREL: What I Learned From “Spider-Man, The Musical”
  107. Call For Papers Listings for 3/28
  108. Job listings for week ending 3/28
  109. HOW TO DEVREL: The Texas Sharpshooter
  110. Job listings for week ending 3/21
  111. Call For Papers Listings for 3/21
  112. HOW TO DEVREL: It Might Not Be New, but It’s Yours
  113. Job listings for week ending 3/14
  114. Call For Papers Listings for 3/14
  115. No Observability Tool is the “Best”
  116. Job listings for week ending 3/07
  117. Call For Papers Listings for 3/07
  118. OTel Me Why
  119. Job listings for week ending 2/28
  120. Call For Papers Listings for 2/28
  121. Announcing Zmanim WP: My New WordPress Plugin
  122. Job listings for week ending 2/21
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  124. It Costs That Much Because it Takes Me F***ing Hours
  125. Job listings for week ending 2/14
  126. Call For Papers Listings for 2/14
  127. Who the Hell is Going to Pay For This?
  128. Job listings for week ending 2/7
  129. Call For Papers Listings for 2/7
  130. O can you TEL me how to get…
  131. Job listings for week ending 1/31
  132. Call For Papers Listings for 1/31
  133. Time Data Series: It’s Not What You Said It’s How You Said It
  134. Job listings for week ending 1/24
  135. Call For Papers Listings for 1/24
  136. What happened isn’t the point. How you respond is.
  137. Job listings for week ending 1/17
  138. Call For Papers Listings for 1/17
  139. My Favorite Interview Question
  140. Job listings for week ending 1/10
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  142. Job listings for week ending 1/3/2025
  143. Call For Papers Listings for 1/3/2025
  144. Beginning with Gratitude

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  1. Job listings for week ending 12/27
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  23. The One Interview Question That Lost You The Job
  24. Job listings for week ending 10/11
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  26. Time Data Series: The Rest of the Story
  27. Job listings for week ending 10/4
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  29. Hiring Superstitions: Things that might be a thing
  30. Job listings for week ending 9/27
  31. Call For Papers Listings for 9/27
  32. Hiring Superstitions: Things that aren’t a thing
  33. Job listings for week ending 9/20
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  35. ACTING (like we care about) Security
  36. Call For Papers Listings for 9/13
  37. Job listings for week ending 9/13
  38. Starting to Care About Security
  39. Nobody Cares About Security
  40. Job listings for week ending 9/6
  41. Call For Papers Listings for 9/6
  42. Call For Papers Listings for 8/30
  43. Job listings for week ending 8/30
  44. Respect Your Youngers
  45. Job listings for week ending 8/23
  46. Call For Papers Listings for 8/23
  47. Calm The F… fog Down, Cloud’s Not THAT Different!
  48. Call For Papers Listings for 8/16
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  50. Exploring NetFlow with Kentik: A Simple Explainer
  51. Job listings for week ending 8/9
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  53. Network Observability: Beyond Metrics and Logs
  54. Job listings for week ending 8/2
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  56. NMS Migration Made Easy: Lessons Learned
  57. Job listings for week ending 7/26
  58. Call For Papers Listings for 7/26
  59. NMS Migration Made Easy: Moving Foward with Kentik NMS
  60. Job listings for week ending 7/19
  61. Call For Papers Listings for 7/19
  62. NMS Migration Made Easy: Get Stakeholders Aligned
  63. Call For Papers Listings for 7/12
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  65. NMS Migration Made Easy: Gathering Information
  66. Job listings for week ending 7/5
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  68. Call For Papers Listings for 6/28
  69. Job listings for week ending 6/28
  70. Getting Started with eBooks
  71. Job listings for week ending 6/21
  72. Call For Papers Listings for 6/21
  73. What Matters Most in a Job Search?
  74. Call For Papers Listings for 6/14
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  78. Call For Papers Listings for 5/31
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  84. Job listings for week ending 5/10
  85. Call For Papers Listings for 5/10
  86. Job listings for week ending 5/3
  87. Call For Papers Listings for 5/3
  88. The (Mostly) Complete Guide to Installing Kentik NMS
  89. Call For Papers Listings for 4/26
  90. Job listings for week ending 4/26
  91. Adjusting Data Before Sending It to Kentik NMS
  92. Job listings for week ending 4/19
  93. Call For Papers Listings for 4/19
  94. Adding Multiple Custom Metrics to Kentik NMS
  95. Job listings for week ending 4/12
  96. Call For Papers Listings for 4/12
  97. Using Kentik NMS to Identify Network Outages
  98. Job listings for week ending 4/5
  99. Call For Papers Listings for 4/5
  100. Time Data Series: What Daylight Are We Saving?
  101. Job listings for week ending 3/29
  102. Call For Papers Listings for 3/29
  103. How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics
  104. Job listings for week ending 3/22
  105. Call For Papers Listings for 3/22
  106. Time Data Series: Working with PHP Zmanim
  107. Job listings for week ending 3/15
  108. Call For Papers Listings for 3/15
  109. Getting Started with Kentik NMS
  110. Call For Papers Listings for 3/08
  111. Job listings for week ending 3/08
  112. Another Trick to Find Remote Jobs
  113. Setting Sail with Kentik NMS: Unified Network Telemetry
  114. Call For Papers Listings for 3/01
  115. Job listings for week ending 3/01
  116. Time Data Series: Getting Started with PHP Zmanim
  117. Call For Papers Listings for 2/23
  118. Job listings for week ending 2/23
  119. Job listings for week ending 2/16
  120. Call For Papers Listings for 2/16
  121. What’s a Resume FOR?
  122. Job listings for week ending 2/9
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  124. Job listings for week ending 2/2
  125. Call For Papers Listings for 2/2
  126. “Do You Have Any Questions for Me?”
  127. Job listings for week ending 1/26
  128. Call For Papers Listings for 1/26
  129. Remember When Things Were Better? (No.)
  130. Job listings for week ending 1/19
  131. Call For Papers Listings for 1/19
  132. Culture, Community, Creation, Calling
  133. Call For Papers Listings for 1/12
  134. Job listings for week ending 1/12
  135. Job Descriptions and Other Works of Fiction
  136. Job listings for week ending 1/05
  137. Call For Papers Listings for 1/05
  138. Who Says “no” in a Job Search?

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  1. Job listings for week ending 12/29
  2. Call For Papers Listings for 12/29
  3. Setting Up a WordPress Test Environment With wp-env
  4. Job listings for week ending 12/22
  5. Call For Papers Listings for 12/22
  6. Call For Papers Listings for 12/15
  7. Job listings for week ending 12/15
  8. What I Learned About Salary Negotiation from Kym Possible
  9. Call For Papers Listings for 12/08
  10. Job listings for week ending 12/08
  11. Writing your first “Hello Product” script using the WooCommerce API
  12. Job listings for week ending 12/01
  13. Call For Papers Listings for 12/01
  14. Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
  15. Jobsearch: Sometimes it IS who you know
  16. Call For Papers Listings for 11/24
  17. Job listings for week ending 11/24
  18. Jobsearch: Should I start looking now?
  19. Job listings for week ending 11/17
  20. Call For Papers Listings for 11/17
  21. Lessons From a Six Month Job Search
  22. Call For Papers Listings for 11/10
  23. Job listings for week ending 11/10
  24. The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023
  25. Job listings for week ending 11/3
  26. Call For Papers Listings for 11/03
  27. Visibly Kentik
  28. Job listings for week ending 10/27
  29. Call For Papers Listings for 10/27
  30. Call For Papers Listings for 10/20
  31. Job listings for week ending 10/20
  32. Job listings for week ending 10/13
  33. Call For Papers Listings for 10/13
  34. Safe at Home, or Left Behind?
  35. Call For Papers Listings for 10/6
  36. Job listings for week ending 10/6
  37. Call For Papers Listings for 9/2
  38. Job listings for week ending 9/29
  39. Call For Papers Listings for 9/22
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  41. Call For Papers Listings for 9/15
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  43. Call For Papers Listings for 9/8
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  45. Call For Papers Listings for 9/1
  46. Job listings for week ending 9/1
  47. Job listings for week ending 8/25
  48. Job listings for week ending 8/18
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  50. Job listings for week ending 8/4
  51. Rational Shift-Left Security for Developers
  52. Job listings for week ending 7/28
  53. Job listings for week ending 7/21
  54. Job listings for week ending 7/14
  55. Job listings for week ending 7/7
  56. Job listings for week ending 6/30
  57. Making the leap from old-school monitoring to modern o11y
  58. Job listings for week ending 6/23
  59. How to overcome data silos in open source server monitoring
  60. Job listings for week ending 6/9
  61. Job listings for week ending 6/2
  62. As Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler
  63. Job listings for week ending 5/26
  64. What ChatGPT Needs is Context
  65. Job listings for week ending 5/19
  66. Job listings for week ending 5/12
  67. Job listings for week ending 5/5
  68. Job listings for week ending 4/28
  69. Four Questions Friday: The Law of Unintended Consequences
  70. Building with our heads and hearts, not (only) our hands
  71. Job listings for week ending 4/21
  72. Four Questions Friday: An ounce of prevention
  73. Throwback Thursday: Colored Perceptions
  74. Simple JSON metrics with Flex
  75. Four Questions Friday: Monitoring != Alerting
  76. Job listings for week ending 4/14
  77. Throwback Thursday: Showing Your Scars
  78. Simple Script Metrics with Flex
  79. Job listings for week ending 4/7
  80. Four Questions Friday: The Prozac Moment
  81. Throwback Thursday: Respect Your Elders
  82. Absolutely Simple Flex
  83. Job listings for week ending 3/24
  84. Four Questions Friday: Alerting
  85. Throwback Thursday: Who Decides?
  86. Driving isn’t like riding; Building isn’t like using
  87. Job listings for week ending 3/24
  88. Four Questions Friday: The story before the story
  89. Throwback Thursday: Write! Sing! Draw! Dance!
  90. Something ChatGPT is good for?
  91. Job listings for week ending 3/17
  92. Four Questions Friday: Questions
  93. The Difference Between Work & Life
  94. Pretty data all in neat rows
  95. Four Questions Friday: The Beginning
  96. Job listings for week ending 3/10
  97. Throwback Thursday: Walking Away
  98. Mind the Gap
  99. Job listings for week ending 3/3
  100. Your Pi-Hole is a rich source of data
  101. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 2)
  102. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 1)

2022 38

  1. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 4)
  2. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 3)
  3. Creating Crap Faster Isn’t an Improvement
  4. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 2)
  5. Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 1)
  6. “Managing up” in a digital age
  7. Monitoring multiple network devices with New Relic
  8. Best practices for fixing your alerts
  9. Absolutely simple network monitoring
  10. In-Person Events, Reloaded
  11. Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring
  12. Develop a Sense of Code
  13. Who Are We Helping?
  14. Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’
  15. Making the Case for Observability (to your boss)
  16. Why OpenTelemetry Should Matter to Network and Systems Admins
  17. CNCF Annual Survey Report Review: The state of cloud and Kubernetes
  18. You’re More Than Your Title
  19. 3 Ways Government Employees Can Bolster Their Cyberhygiene
  20. From Here to Observability
  21. Enterprise IT risk: Mitigating the growing threat to remote networks
  22. Once Bitten, Twice Shy: How IT Pros Can Better Prepare for the Shift to Hybrid Work
  23. How IT Pros Can Help Prepare the Public Sector for the Future of Work
  24. Everything I Needed to Know, Leaping From the Pages in a Single Bound
  25. We Need to Have “The Talk”
  26. Speaking Up: Bridging the Space Between the Idea and the Publish Button
  27. Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part Two)
  28. Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part One)
  29. Monitoring for Managers Q6: There Are No Technology Projects
  30. You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)
  31. IT Pro Day ’21: Bring IT On
  32. SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough
  33. Monitoring for Managers Q5: Question 5: Would You Like Everything With That?
  34. Confidence
  35. You Have to EARN the Gorilla Suit
  36. A Cautionary Toy… I Mean Tale
  37. Question 4: Finding Sound and Significance
  38. Geek Pride Day, The Extended Cut

2021 106

  1. Tips for improving digital retail experiences
  2. Nothing is Ever Wasted (part 2)
  3. Nothing is Ever Wasted (part 1)
  4. Geek Pride Day: SolarWinds Head Geeks reflect on what it means to be a geek
  5. Question 3: Don’t Close the Ticket, Fix the Problem
  6. Give Monitoring a Shot
  7. Un-Excus-ing Upgrades
  8. IT Life Coach: Tips for Bridging the IT Career Gap
  9. Four Ways Your Network Could Change in Four Years
  10. Throttling Network Bandwidth
  11. Bandwidth Problems? 3 Steps to Diagnose Bandwidth Issues
  12. 4 Steps to Forecast and Plan Your Network Capacity Needs
  13. DPI Training: The What and Why of Packet Analysis
  14. How To Fix Network Experience Problems
  15. IT Life Coach: Tips for Better Monitoring
  16. IT Life Coach: Tips for the Busy Network Engineer
  17. #BlogElul: The Day(s) After
  18. #BlogElul 29: Return
  19. IT Life Coach: Tips for the Busy SysAdmin
  20. #BlogElul 28: Give
  21. #BlogElul 27: Bless
  22. #BlogElul 26: Create
  23. #BlogElul 25: Change
  24. #BlogElul 24: Hope
  25. #BlogElul 23: Begin
  26. #BlogElul 22: End
  27. Enterprise IT Cost Containment—A Series
  28. #BlogElul 21: Love
  29. #BlogElul 20: Fill
  30. #BlogElul 19: Speak
  31. #BlogElul 18: Ask
  32. #BlogElul 17: Awaken
  33. #BlogElul 16: Pray
  34. #BlogElul 15: Plan
  35. Introducing the IT Life Coach Series
  36. #BlogElul 14: Learn
  37. #BlogElul 13: Remember
  38. #BlogElul 12: Count
  39. #BlogElul 11: Trust
  40. #BlogElul 10: Forgive
  41. #BlogElul 9: See
  42. #BlogElul 8: Hear
  43. M4M Question 1: Looking for a Monitoring Concept Primer
  44. #BlogElul 7: Understand
  45. #BlogElul 6: Want
  46. #BlogElul 5: Commit
  47. #BlogElul 4: Choose
  48. #BlogElul 3: Prepare
  49. #BlogElul 2: Seek
  50. #BlogElul 1: Decide
  51. Monitoring For Managers—a New Monthly Series
  52. #BlogElul: Day Zero
  53. What IT Pros Should Consider for Their 2021 Resolutions
  54. Upgrade Tales From the Ticket Queue
  55. Remote Work – A Guaranteed Policy
  56. SUDO Teach Me a Lesson
  57. Remote Work Rant #2
  58. Remote Work Rant #1
  59. Change Is Hard
  60. 4 tips for a successful relationship (with your IT ecosystem)
  61. IT Life Coach for Monitoring
  62. Anything But Soft: The Tech Skills You’ll Need For 2021
  63. December Writing Challenge 2020: Day n+1
  64. December Writing Challenge Day 31: What’s the Plural of Apocalypse?
  65. December Writing Challenge Day 30: Monitoring Mixology (part 2)
  66. December Writing Challenge Day 30: Monitoring Mixology, or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bourbon” (part 1)
  67. December Writing Challenge Day 29: Things I H̶A̶T̶E̶D̶ Loved in 2020
  68. December Writing Challenge Day 28: When This is Over…
  69. December Writing Challenge Day 27: Ending My Doomscroll
  70. December Writing Challenge Day 24: All Dressed-Up and Nowhere to Go
  71. December Writing Challenge Day 27: Taking PTO and Going… Nowhere
  72. December Writing Challenge Day 21: Not All Introverts ❤ WFH
  73. December Writing Challenge Day 20: Today I Tried…
  74. December Writing Challenge Day 19: Overcoming Anxiety
  75. December Writing Challenge Day 15: Sweatpants Are Now Business Attire
  76. December Writing Challenge Day 11: Connecting With My Community
  77. December Writing Challenge Day 10: What Day Is It?
  78. December Writing Challenge Day 9: I Didn’t Think I’d Ever Need…
  79. December Writing Challenge Day 8: My New Hobby: Lessons Learned
  80. December Writing Challenge Day 7: Separation Anxiety
  81. December Writing Challenge Day 6: Easy Home IT Upgrades
  82. Time zones, DST and gaps in monitoring
  83. December Writing Challenge Day 5: Tonight in Pandemic Viewing
  84. December Writing Challenge Day 4: I Was Today Years Old When I Learned…
  85. December Writing Challenge Day 3: Pet Peeves: Home Office Edition
  86. December Writing Challenge Day 2: Show Us Your Office Space
  87. December Writing Challenge Day 1: Connecting in a Disconnected World
  88. December Writing Challenge: Day Zero
  89. Announcing the 2020 December Writing Challenge: “Accentuate the Positive”
  90. IT Life Hacks for Monitoring
  91. Optimize Today’s Tech for Tomorrow’s Success
  92. THWACKcamp 2020: Day Two Wrap-Up
  93. THWACKcamp 2020: Day One Wrap-Up
  94. Application Stability Management vs. Application Performance Management – Who Needs Them and Why
  95. Tried and True Tech Tips
  96. Attitude Adjustment: Accentuate the Positive
  97. Digital Twins: No Longer a Pipe Dream for Manufacturing?
  98. Turns Out IT’s “New Normal” Is Much of the Same
  99. WFH 101: What happens when IT is in lockdown?
  100. Here’s How IT Can Talk Its Way to Better Budgets
  101. 2020: The Year IT Pros Were Built For
  102. It Takes a Village to Fix a Spreadsheet
  103. The Changing Face of IT
  104. SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”
  105. Can IT cure health care’s hybrid cloud woes?
  106. How IT Pros Can Maximize Their Summertime

2020 53

  1. Friendship Is Magic. And Harder Than It Looks.
  2. The Harsh Realities of Working From Home
  3. Losing Track, Gaining Perspective
  4. Distributed Computing – When Everyone Is Working From Home
  5. Hunting and Gathering in the Age of COVID
  6. Hybrid Cloud Adoption in Healthcare: A Dose of Reality for IT Pros
  7. REMOTE WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE
  8. Q&A: Rising cloud spend and the need for cloud economists
  9. Career Corner: How to Promote Yourself Without Sounding Like a Jerk
  10. IT Pros Prioritizing APM, Hybrid Management and Security
  11. Take Your Video Call Out of This World
  12. 7 ways to root out IT staff incompetence
  13. How IT Pros Can Make Remote Working a Breeze—Even for Themselves
  14. Hyperconverged Infrastructure Versus Cloud Strategies
  15. Over a Decade as a Remote IT Professional: Here’s My Advice
  16. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: The Mostly Un-Necessary Summary
  17. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Additional (external) Resources
  18. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Sometimes It IS About the Tech
  19. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Being Heard When You’re Not in the Room
  20. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Clear Communication
  21. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Collaboration at a Distance
  22. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: How Work Actually Gets Done
  23. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Stay on Task and On Time
  24. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Home Life at Work
  25. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Work Life at Home
  26. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Finding Community and Connection
  27. The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Introduction
  28. Your Employees Can Take Steps to Beef Up Their Home Network Security — Here’s How
  29. Tech Pros and Remote Work During COVID-19
  30. SolarWinds 2020 Predictions: Evolving Executives in an Evolving Industry
  31. Unplanned Obsolescence
  32. Foresight is 2020: My Predictions For the Coming Year
  33. Forget the Turtles and Hares: How to Manage a Successful Digital Transformation Project
  34. SDN for Network Security: Panacea or Placebo?
  35. Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 2 of 2)
  36. Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 1 of 2)
  37. IT Pro Day 2019—It Figures.
  38. The Tech Pro Evolution Revolution: From the Server Room to the Board Room
  39. Want to Future-Proof Your IT Environment? Stay Out of Technical Debt and Unleash the Chaos Monkey
  40. The ticking talent time bomb in IT
  41. Using Our Brain (a Reflection on FaceApp and Harry Potter)
  42. SysAdmin Day 2019: The Secret to Getting Ahead
  43. Network Troubleshooting: How to Optimize Your Toolset to Tackle Today’s Network Issues
  44. Plugging the Gaps in Network Complexity
  45. IoT Security
  46. Retain Your IT Staff by Doing These 3 Things
  47. What’s Your Data Center Trying to Tell You? Performance Metrics Best Practices
  48. Don’t fear the robot: How to overcome automation anxiety
  49. Top Five Tips for IT Managers to Keep Their Network Running Smoothly Through Peak Events
  50. Advanced Reporting part 5: What Have We Learned?
  51. Advanced Alert Reporting part 4: Creating an Acknowledge Link Where Once There Was None
  52. Advanced Alert Reporting part 3: Hyperlinks in Data Output
  53. Advanced Reporting Part 2: Making Web-Baed Reports Do Your Bidding

2019 83

  1. Advanced Reporting Part 1: Re-Creating the “All Alerts” Resource With Extras
  2. Fuck StrengthsFinder
  3. ICYMI: Pulling the Plug on Legacy Technology: What You Need to Know
  4. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT, I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (part 3)
  5. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT, I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (part 2)
  6. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT, I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (part 1)
  7. ICYMI: Head in the Sand About Cloud (part 3)
  8. ICYMI: Head in the Sand About Cloud (part 2)
  9. ICYMI: Head in the Sand About Cloud (part 1)
  10. ICYMI: Fine Arts Majors in the DataCenter: Do You Really Need an IT Degree?
  11. ICYMI: The Journey’s End
  12. ICYMI: What is Your IT Legacy?
  13. ICYMI: Slow Down, You Crazy Child
  14. ICYMI: Directions
  15. ICYMI: Customizing Polling Intervals With the Orion SDK
  16. ICYMI: Finding Strength in Failure
  17. ICYMI: How IT Pros Can Bridge the IT-Business Gap
  18. ICYMI: Solving for Scalability
  19. ICYMI: The Echo Chamber: Visibility and Mapping Webinar
  20. ICYMI: The Word “Customer” is NSFW
  21. ICYMI: Why Do We Put Up With Monitoring Solutions That Hurt?
  22. ICYMI: :Why Do We Put Up With Monitoring Solutions that Hurt?
  23. ICYMI: Universal Monitoring Crimes and What to Do About Them – Part 2
  24. ICYMI: Universal Monitoring Crimes and What to Do About Them – Part 1
  25. ICYMI: No Network for Old Men
  26. ICYMI: 7 Ways to Embrance Shadow IT and Win
  27. ICYMI: A Look At I.T. “Addictions”
  28. ICYMI: Improving Certification Certainty, part 2
  29. ICYMI: Improving Certification Certainty, part 1
  30. ICYMI: Certifications: Demonstration or Decoy?
  31. The (expanded) Practical Checklist For Getting a Job (in IT)
  32. ICYMI: Data Center Monitoring Automation: Getting Started
  33. ICYMI: Automation the Way Automation is Meant to Be
  34. ICYMI: Data, Information, Action
  35. ICYMI: Traveling With Joy
  36. ICYMI: The time to think about IoT security is now!
  37. ICYMI: The AI era: 4 skills IT pros need to develop
  38. ICYMI: Fine Arts Majors in the Data Center: Do You Really Need an IT Degree?
  39. ICYMI: The ethics of automation: Is it bad to automate my entire job?
  40. ICYMI: Could moral ambiguity be hurting IT professionals?
  41. ICYMI: My Journey to DevOps Monitoring
  42. ICYMI: My Certification Journey
  43. ICYMI: What Makes an IT Professional?
  44. Podcast: Jokes I Wish I Could Tell You
  45. ICYMI: Dealing with division through DevOps
  46. ICYMI: Automation’s Impact on Data Center Monitoring Alerts
  47. Now Available for Purchase!
  48. Dollar Auction
  49. Book Preview: What’s This Got to Do With Monitoring?
  50. ICYMI: How IT Can Keep a Seat at the Digital Transformation Table
  51. ICYMI: Forget artistry, opt for IT automation
  52. Book Sale – One Week Left!
  53. ICYMI: What is Good Data Center Monitoring?
  54. Book Preview: Why “The Four Questions”?
  55. ICYMI: Cloud-Proofing Your Job
  56. Book Preview: On Being Questioned
  57. ICYMI: Stages of Network Monitoring
  58. ICYMI: Kiwi Syslog 9.6: No Longer Trapped
  59. ICYMI: Monitoring Nirvana
  60. ICYMI: Monitoring and automation: it’s easier than you think
  61. ICYMI: Tech Primer: The Stages Of Systems Automation
  62. ICYMI: The Cost of Monitoring… With the Wrong Tool
  63. ICYMI: Learning from History, 2017 Data Center Edition
  64. ICYMI: Trite Business Lies
  65. ICYMI: The Critical Difference
  66. ICYMI: Everyone Knows
  67. ICYMI: Avery Gets his Answer
  68. SEO and Strawberry Shortcake
  69. ICYMI: Tapping into old skills in the face of networking evolution
  70. ICYMI: Designing a Data Center Maturity Model
  71. I Hope to be as decent as “…a little black girl from the South Side.”
  72. ICYMI: Yes, It’s Big. Get Over It.
  73. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT (I Learned From “Logan”) part 4
  74. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT (I Learned From “Logan”) part 3
  75. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT (I Learned From “Logan”) part 2
  76. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About IT (I Learned From “Logan”) part 1
  77. ICYMI: Tapping into old skills in the face of networking evolution
  78. ICYMI: If I Was a Grownup, This is the Essay I’d Write
  79. ICYMI: Two Recurring Issues in Data Center Monitoring Automation
  80. ICYMI: The Network: Still the Foundation of IT
  81. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About A Career in IT (I Learned From “Doctor Strange”) part 4
  82. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About A Career in IT (I Learned From “Doctor Strange”) part 3
  83. The Only Difference

2018 41

  1. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About A Career in IT (I Learned From “Doctor Strange”) part 2
  2. ICYMI: Everything I Needed to Know About A Career in IT (I Learned From “Doctor Strange”) part 1
  3. ICYMI: SEO, Lies, and Video Tape (part 5 of 5)
  4. ICYMI: SEO, Lies, and Video Tape (part 4 of 5)
  5. The Cost of (Not) Monitoring
  6. Adding New Terms to Existing WooCommerce Variable Cost Products
  7. ICYMI: SEO, Lies, and Video Tape (part 3 of 5)
  8. ICYMI: SEO, Lies, and Video Tape (part 2 of 5)
  9. Fat Tuesday: Healthy Choices
  10. ICYMI: SEO, Lies, and Video Tape (part 1 of 5)
  11. Creating Variable-cost Products in WooCommerce
  12. ICYMI: Networking Survival Guide: 7 Essential Rules
  13. Fat Tuesday: When the Goal is In Sight
  14. ICYMI: Unplug to Recharge – A guide for IT Professionals (part 3 of 3)
  15. ICYMI: Unplug to Recharge – A guide for IT Professionals (part 2 of 3)
  16. Fat Tuesday: Being Thankful
  17. ICYMI: Unplug to Recharge – A guide for IT Professionals (part 1 of 3)
  18. I Quit Facebook. You Should Too.
  19. ICYMI: Liar, Liar, Pings on Fire
  20. Fat Tuesday: What is This Diet All About?
  21. ICYMI: Called to Account
  22. ICYMI: Automation the Way Automation is Meant to Be
  23. Fat Tuesday: Ignoring the Treadmill You Are On.
  24. Early Morning Writing
  25. ICYMI: Data, Information, and Action
  26. ICYMI: IT Monitoring Clickbait
  27. Fat Tuesday: Eating Like a Hobbit to Lose Weight
  28. ICYMI: Worth the Risk Now
  29. ICYMI: Knowing vs Understanding
  30. Fat Tuesday: The Bermuda Triangle of Eating
  31. ICYMI: Un-Acceptable
  32. ICYMI: What “Old” Network Engineers Need to Remember
  33. Fat Tuesday: The Same 5 Pounds
  34. ICYMI: What Old IT Pros Need To Remember
  35. ICYMI: The Five Stages of (Monitoring) Grief
  36. Fat Tuesday: Legacy of a Mis-Spent Youth
  37. ICYMI: What Defines You?
  38. ICYMI: Preparing For the Big One (or not)
  39. Fat Tuesday: GOTO 0
  40. ICYMI: What Makes Us Go To Extremes?
  41. SCP Exam Overview – My Perspective

2017 51

  1. #FeatureFriday: Improving Alerts with Query Execution Plans
  2. Blueprint: The Evolution of the Network, Part 2
  3. Change is Good… For Other People
  4. Blueprint: The Evolution of the Network, Part 1
  5. It’s Not About What Happened
  6. When It Comes to System Outages, Don’t Prepare For the Worst
  7. “Nice to Have” is Relative
  8. Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We…
  9. When, Not What, Defines Today’s Networking Career
  10. A Cornucopia
  11. “Logfile Monitoring” – I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
  12. Essential
  13. The Four Questions, Part 5
  14. #FeatureFriday: What is WMI?
  15. Nothing is New Under the Sun
  16. The Three Black Boxes (hint: the network was only the beginning)
  17. #FeatureFriday: Understanding Network Configuration Backups
  18. The Myth of the “Five Nines”
  19. #FeatureFriday: What is IPSLA?
  20. Do-Over
  21. Why I care about Women in Monitoring (and IT)
  22. #FeatureFriday: What is NetFlow?
  23. If you Knew Me, You Wouldn’t Believe Me
  24. The Four Questions, Part 4
  25. #FeatureFriday: What is SNMP?
  26. Don’t Fear Starting Over
  27. The Four Questions, Part 3
  28. #FeatureFriday: What is Syslog?
  29. Luxury
  30. The Four Questions, Part 2
  31. #FeatureFriday: What is Ping?
  32. I Wish Someone Had Told Me
  33. The Four Questions, Part 1
  34. Moments
  35. The Four Questions – Introduction
  36. Lose, Survive, or Win?
  37. MovieBob and Magneto
  38. Breaking the Loop
  39. LINK: Do what you love
  40. I’d Like the Record to Reflect…
  41. The difference
  42. Don’t Tell Me “It’s Complicated”
  43. Colored Perceptions
  44. Showing Your Scars
  45. Using NetFlow monitoring tactics to solve bandwidth mysteries
  46. The Difference Between Work & Life
  47. IT Monitoring Scalability Planning: 3 Roadblocks
  48. Time for a network monitoring application? What to look for
  49. HumbleBrag: Gesher’s Upper Level IT Training
  50. ICYMI: IT monitoring: ignore it at your peril
  51. The Top 5 Network Issues You Didn’t Know You Had

2016 8

  1. Day 04 – Understand More
  2. Day 3 – Search
  3. #BlogElul 02-Act
  4. #BlogElul 01-Prepare
  5. #BlogElul: ZeroDay
  6. Respect Your Elders
  7. When, not what, defines today’s networking career
  8. eBooks For Your 2016 Reading List

2015 33

  1. Net Use: It’s Geek-Speak for “I Love You”
  2. #BlogElul Day 29: Return
  3. #BlogElul Day 28: Give
  4. #BlogElul Day 27: Bless
  5. #BlogElul Day 26: Create
  6. #BlogElul Day 25: Intend
  7. #BlogElul Day 24: Hope
  8. #BlogElul Day 23: Begin
  9. #BlogElul Day 22: End
  10. #BlogElul Day 21: Love
  11. #BlogElul Day 20: Dare
  12. #BlogElul Day 19: Judge
  13. #BlogElul Day 18: Ask
  14. #BlogElul Day 17: Awaken
  15. #BlogElul Day 16: Pray
  16. #BlogElul Day 15: Change
  17. #BlogElul Day 14: Learn
  18. #BlogElul Day 13: Remember
  19. #BlogElul Day 12: Forgive
  20. #BlogElul Day 11: Trust
  21. #BlogElul Day 10: Count
  22. #BlogElul Day 9: See
  23. #BlogElul Day 8: Hear
  24. #BlogElul Day 7: Be
  25. #BlogElul Day 6: Know
  26. #BlogElul Day 5: Accept
  27. #BlogElul Day 4: Understand
  28. #BlogElul Day 3: Search
  29. #BlogElul Day 2: Act
  30. #BlogElul Day 1: Prepare
  31. ZeroDay: Introducing #BlogElul
  32. Seven
  33. Negative Reaction

2014 2

  1. Me In Three! (Ok, four. OK, maybe five.)
  2. Walking Away

2013 1

  1. Reader and Weep

2012 20

  1. Insecurity Issues
  2. Hacked Off?
  3. Job Hunting
  4. What’s Up with the AdatoSystems.com Website?
  5. WooCommerce on Non-Woo Themes
  6. Inspiration
  7. Adding Variable-cost Products in WooCommerce
  8. Sometimes it’s the little things
  9. Protection Racket
  10. OBBA Presentation
  11. Welcome OBBA members!
  12. Don’t Hire Pantless Weasles!
  13. Who’s Ya Daddy?
  14. Team players vs autonomous thinking
  15. Virus Removal
  16. Write! Sing! Draw! Dance! NOW. You can do it!
  17. Required Reading if you ever want to email me
  18. Web site setup
  19. All roads lead to…
  20. The (Human) Cost of Our Crap

2011 14

  1. 12 Monitoring Tips for 2012
  2. SolarWinds: Going with the (net)Flow
  3. The quintiessential Geek question
  4. Solarwinds: Giving rights to NCM without giving away the farm
  5. Fun with WordPress, Multisite and Permalinks
  6. A Long Way From “Tea. Earl Grey, Hot”
  7. SolarWinds improvements part 3, custom OID alerts
  8. Welcome to SolarWinds thwack participants!
  9. WordPress, WP-Ecommerce, and fatal memory errors
  10. SolarWinds Improvements part 2 – per-node thresholds
  11. Mailpress and WordPress Multi-Site
  12. SolarWinds Improvements, part 1 – Mute
  13. Site Redesign and More
  14. Now a SolarWinds MVP

2004 1

  1. Tooth Fairy Delayed