Articles and Appearances

(Pre-2020 content can be found here)

Here is a list of links besides this blog, where my articles have been published or where I’ve appeared in video or audio form. This list has grown a bit over the years, so here’s a table of contents so you can jump to the section you need:

1. Books
2. Interviews & Quotes
3. Talks, Webcasts, Podcasts, & Seminars
4. Publications
5. Videos

Books, eBooks, & Whitepapers:

• The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked
  • On  Amazon Kindle
  • Honest-to-goodness-hold-it-in-your-hands Print version
• (SolarWinds) Monitoring 101
• (SolarWinds) Monitoring 201
• (SolarWinds) It’s Automation, Not Art
• (Amazon Kindle) Technically, These are Random Thoughts
• (Amazon Kindle) The Incomplete Guide to Integrating SolarWinds and Slack
• (Dummies Press) Network Monitoring for Dummies v2.0
• (Dummies Press) Systems Monitoring for Dummies
• (SolarWinds) The Monitoring ELI5 Guide
• (SolarWinds) The Official SolarWinds Work From Home Guide
• (SolarWinds) (Updated) Build the Perfect Lab with GNS3 and Solarwinds Orion
• (SolarWinds) Virtualization Monitoring 101
• (SolarWinds) Everything I Needed to Know About IT, I Learned From Stan Lee
• (SmashWords) Technically, These Are Random Thoughts
• (SmashWords) EdibleTorah: Echoes of Elul
• (SmashWords) A Condensed Guide to the Weekly Torah Readings
• (SmashWords) The Edible Torah

Interviews & Quotes (most recent first)

• (Kubernetes Podcast, 12/5/23) Kubecon 2023
• (Collabria, 11/20/22) How to be Zoom Ready in 5 Minutes or Less
• (Collabria, 11/3/22) Managing Up From Your Desktop
• (Mobile Magazine, 1/11/22) SolarWinds Predicts 2022 Tech Trends
  • Image can also be found here
• (Donate and Earn, Cloud Computing, 12/6/21) 10 Cloud Technology Predictions for 2022
• (Database Trends and Analysis, 11/30/21) 11 Cloud Technology Predictions for 2022
• (Dynamic Business, 10/12/21) Let’s talk: Tips for achieving a better online customer experience
• (VMBlog, 7/30/21) Celebrate System Administrators on #SysAdminDay 2021
• (My Tech Decisions, 6/6/2021) Why Organizations Should Proceed Slowly With Windows 11
• (Pressbox.de, 5/25/2021) Geek Pride Day: SolarWinds Head Geeks erzählen, warum sie stolz sind, Geeks zu sein
• (Dynamic Business, 5/5/2021) Let’s Talk – Time is money: how & where should business owners spend their time?
• (DynamicBusiness, 3/24/2021) Let’s Talk: How can you drive motivation and teamwork among staff?
• (Dynamic Business, 12/16/2020) Let’s Talk: End of Year Sales
• (TechRepublic, 12/9/2020) 7 in-demand tech skills to master in 2021
• (DevOps.com, 9/16/2020) The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO
• (CIO.de, 9/16/020) Wie Ihre IT kompetenter wird
  “How your IT becomes more competent”
• (ZDNet, 9/1/2020) Hardware to consider adding to your 2021 IT budget
• (BuiltIn, 8/14/2020) These Companies Enabled the Work-From-Home Transition of 2020. Here’s What They Learned.
• (VMBlog, 7/20/2020) How IT Pros Can Maximize Their Summertime
• (CIO Brazil, 5/6/2020) 7 maneiras de erradicar a incompetência da equipe de TI e evitar o pior
• (CIO, 4/15/2020) Gerentes de TI enfrentam restrições de hardware durante pandemia
• (CIO Dive, 4/15/2020) 6 charts to understand the coronavirus impact on IT
• (CIO Dive, 4/3/2020) ‘The haves and have nots’: Disrupted IT managers contend with hardware constraints
• (TechTarget, 3/19/2020) 4 causes of SSD failure and how to deal with them
• (DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Europe 2020, 2/10/2020) Study tips for network engineers, developers, and life-long learners
• (TechTrade Asia 1/6/2020) Work 4.0 in 2020: happier employees (maybe)

Talks, Webcasts, Podcasts, & Seminars (most recent first)

• (PyOhio, 9/27/24) Technical Empathy
• (Telemetry News Now, 9/26/24) From Monitoring to Observability in the Cloud Era
• (OffCall, 9/13/24) It’s The Network with Leon Adato (part 3)
• (OffCall, 9/6/24) It’s The Network with Leon Adato (part 2)
• (Telemetry News Now, 8/29/24) Introducing Telemetry News Now
• (PyOhio, 8/4/24) Technical Empathy
• (OffCall, 7/31/24) It’s The Network with Leon Adato (part 1)
• (Kentik Webinar, 7/16/24) Mastering the Mayhem: Trends and Tools for Network Management 2024
• (ITOps Times, 6/25/24) AI Meets Network Monitoring: Now What?
• (DevOpsDays Houston, 6/4/24) Living an Unplugged Life as an IT Practitioner
• (DevOpsDays Houston, 6/4/24) Network Observability
• (DevOpsDays Montreal, 5/27/24) What Stan Lee Taught Me About Working in Tech
• (DevOpsDays Montreal, 5/27/24) Technical Empathy
• (DevOpsDays Seattle, 5/14/24) Living an Unplugged Life as an IT Practitioner
• (DevOpsDays Seattle, 5/14/24) Alerts Don’t Suck, YOUR Alerts Suck!
• (Checkly, 3/7/24) Beyond APM: What Datadog Won’t Tell You with Leon Adato of Kentik
• (NANOG 90, 2/22/24) Alerts Don’t Suck, YOUR Alerts Suck!
• (Conf42, 1/25/24) Looking Back on a Lifetime of Poor Tech Choices
• (GestaltIT, 1/9/24) Shifting Left to Cast a Wide Safety Net with Leon Adato of Kentik
• (Telemetry Now, 12/22/23) Looking back and peering ahead
• (Kentik, 12/18/23) Closed-Loop Automation for Infrastructure Events
• (Itential, 12/12/23) How to Build Closed-Loop Automation in Response to Infrastructure Events
• (Kentik video, 11/15/23) Alerts Don’t Suck, YOUR Alerts Suck!
• (Telemetry Now, 11/14/23) Are generative AI and LLMs the future of SDN?
• (GestaltIT, 10/25/23) The GestaltIT Rundown
• (The Daily.dev, 10/24/23) Monitoring and Performance
• (Monitorama, 06/27/23) Alerts don’t suck, YOUR alerts suck!
• (DevOpsdays Denver, 4/24/2) Looking back at a lifetime of poor technical choices
• (CloudBytes, 3/8/23) Log Management and Monitoring
• (DevOpsDays Tel Aviv, 12/15/22) Alerts: The root of all evil or the seeds of your success?
• (CloudBytes, 11/28/22) Network Defenses
• (Monitorama, 06/27/22) Technical Empathy
• (DevOpsDays Birmingham UK, 05/05/22) Alerts don’t suck, YOUR alerts suck!
• (Pycon US, 5/17/22) New Relic Codestream workshop
• Host of weekly “Technically Religious” podcast March 2019-2021
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 12/28/21) Monitoring Insights for Database Managers
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 11/09/21) How Military Service Prepares You for a Career in IT
• (The Current Status, 10/28/21) The Water Cooler: “Dune”
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 10/20/21) whurley | Quantum and Beyond
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 10/20/21) whurley | All Things Quantum
• (Gestalt IT / Utilizing AI, 10/12/21) The Philosophical and Religious Aspects of AI
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 9/15/21) Lesley Carhart on Cybersecurity, IT Careers, and Service In and Out of the Military
• (SolarWinds, 7/20/21) An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Welcoming Scope Creep
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 7/27/21) Celebrating SysAdmin Day 2021
• (SolarWinds, 7/20/21) An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Back to the Monitoring Basics
• (My Tech Decisions, 7/19/21) Episode 135: Windows 11, Pt. 2
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 6/22/21) From Monitoring to Leadership
• (SolarWinds, 6/22/21) Capacity Planning and Optimization to Avoid Performance Problems
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 5/25/21) IT Monitoring: Managing Up
• (Flycast, 5/7/2021) Webinar: Ensuring Visibility Within Your System’s Environment
• (SolarWinds, 5/5/2021) Webinar: Ensuring Visibility Within Your System’s Environment
• (ITR – IT Reality, 4/2/2021) ITR on JobHunting, Part 4
• (ITR – IT Reality, 3/12/2021) ITR on JobHunting, Part 3
• (TheCurrentstatus, 3/10/2021) Watercooler: The price of consuming software
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 3/4/2021) The Case for Upgrading
• (ITR – IT Reality, 2/26/2021) ITR on JobHunting, Part 2
• (ITR – IT Reality, 2/12/2021) ITR on JobHunting, Part 1
• (TheCurrentStatus, 1/8/2021) Watercooler: 2021 – what we can look forward to
• (ActualTech Media, 12/2/2020) Supporting Cloud Environments EcoCast 
• (ITR – IT Reality, 11/12/2020) “The Answer to…”, part 2
• (ITR – IT Reality, 11/6/2020) The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything… at least in the ITR World, part 1
• (ActualTech Media, 10/15/2020) Supporting Microsoft-centric Environments EcoCast 
• SolarWinds TechPod, 9/22/2020) IT Pro Day 2020
• (On Premise, 9/8/2020) Your Data is Lying to You
• (ActualTech Media, 9/2/2020) Four Steps to Bridging Your Journey to Microsoft Azure
• (On Premise, 7/13/2020) A Single Source of Truth Can Bring Justice to the World
• (On Premise, 7/6/2020) A Single Source of Truth Can Bring Justice to the World
• (On Premise, 7/6/2020) IT Observability Principles Can Help Bring Justice to the World, Part 1
• (SolarWinds TechPod, 6/23/2020) Return to Work: The New Different
• (TheCurrentStatus, 6/17/2020) Watercooler : Security and IoT
• (SolarWinds TechPod 5/19/2020) IT Trends with CTO Advisor Keith Townsend
• (SolarWinds TechPod 4/07/2020) “Cloud Confessions” Uncover Changing APM Realities for Tech Pros
• (SolarWinds TechPod 3/31/2020) Exploring APM “Cloud Confessions” With Adam Bertram
• (My Tech Decisions, 3/22/2020) Cybersecurity While Working at Home Due to COVID-19
• (Screaming In the Cloud) ‘But in IT, oh, it’s Tuesday. Everything’s about to change again.’ with Leon Adato

Publications (most recent first)

• (The Kentik Blog, 7/18/24) Calm Down, Cloud’s Not THAT Different!
• (The Kentik Blog, 6/27/24) Exploring NetFlow with Kentik: A Simple Explainer
• (The Kentik Blog, 6/25/24) Network Observability: Beyond Metrics and Logs
• (The Kentik Blog, 5/8/24) NMS Migration Made Easy: Lessons Learned
• (The Kentik Blog, 5/2/24) NMS Migration Made Easy: Moving Foward with Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 4/24/24) NMS Migration Made Easy: Get Stakeholders Aligned
• (The Kentik Blog, //24) NMS Migration Made Easy: Gathering Information
• (The Kentik Blog, 4/10/24) The (Mostly) Complete Guide to Installing Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 4/2/24) Adjusting Data Before Sending It to Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 3/20/24) Adding Multiple Custom Metrics to Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 3/13/24) A Day in the Life: Getting to Work with Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 3/7/24) How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics
• (The Kentik Blog, 2/28/24) Getting Started with Kentik NMS
• (The Kentik Blog, 2/7/24) Setting Sail with Kentik NMS: Unified Network Telemetry
• (The Kentik Blog, 12/14/23) AWS re:Invent re:Cap
• (The Kentik Blog, 11/21/23) Kubecon 2023: Code, Culture, Community, and Kubernetes
• (The Kentik Blog, 11/15/23) Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
• (The Kentik Blog, 10/31/23) The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023
• (The Kentik Blog, 10/27/23) Visibly Kentik
• (New Relic Blog, 9/12/23) Unflattening JSON data with New Relic Flex
• (New Relic Blog, 9/8/23) Monitoring Recalcitrant APIs with New Relic Flex
• (New Relic Blog, 9/7/23) APIs are a rich source of observability data
• (New Relic Blog, 7/27/23) Unlock observability power-ups using New Relic’s Python agent API
• (New Relic Blog, 7/21/23) Rational Shift-Left Security for Developers
• (New Relic Blog, 6/20/23) How to overcome data silos in open source server monitoring
• (New Relic Blog, 6/7/23) Making the leap from old-school monitoring to modern o11y
• (Torah&&Tech, 4/4/23) Pesach: The Ultimate Retro
• (DZone, 3/30/23) Driving Isn’t Like Riding; Building Isn’t Like Using
• (Dev.to, 3/16/23) Pretty data all in neat rows
  • Also on DZone
• (Dev.to, 3/9/23) Mind the Gap
  • Also on DZone
• (Dev.to, 3/1/23) Your Pi-Hole is a rich source of data
  • Also on DZone
• (New Relic Blog, 2/10/23) New Relic o11y Day Rides Again
• (New Relic Blog, 1/10/23) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “Tolkien” (part 2)
• (New Relic Blog, 1/3/23) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “Tolkien” (part 1)
• (New Relic Blog, 12/27/22) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 4)
• (New Relic Blog, 12/20/22) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 3)
• (Dev.to, 12/16/22) Creating crap faster isn’t an improvement
• (New Relic Blog, 12/13/2022) Collecting custom JSON metrics using the New Relic Flex integration
• (New Relic Blog, 12/13/22) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 2)
• (New Relic Blog, 12/09/22) Absolutely Simple Metrics with Flex
• (New Relic Blog, 12/07/22) Absolutely Simple Flex
• (New Relic Blog, 12/06/22) Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 1)
• (Dev.to, 11/14/22) “Managing Up” in a digital age
• (Torah&&Tech, 9/22/2) Interview Season
• (New Relic Blog, 9/21/22) How to convince your boss to prioritize observability
• (The Observatory, 8/2/22) Monitoring multiple network devices with New Relic
• (The Observatory, 8/1/22) Best practices for fixing your alerts
• (Dev.to, 6/13/22) Monitorama 2022 – OpenTelemetry and so much more!
• (The Observatory, 6/9/22) Absolutely Simple Network Monitoring
• (Dev.to, 6/7/22) In-Person Events, Reloaded
• (The Observatory, 5/31/22) Absolutely Simple Infrastructure Monitoring
• (Dev.to, 5/9/22) Develop a Sense of Code
  • And re-posted to DZone
• (NerdLife, 3/29/33) LeadDev NYC 2022 Preview: On the Road Again
  • And re-posted to Dev.to
• (Dev.to, 3/28/22) Who Are We Helping?
• (Dev.to, 3/21/22) Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’
• (Dev.to, 3/18/22) Making the Case for Observability (to your boss)
  • And re-posted to DZone
• (HackerNoon, 2/18/22) Why OpenTelemetry Should Matter to Network and Systems Admins
• (The Nerdlog, 2/10/22) CNCF Annual Survey Report Review: The state of cloud and Kubernetes
• (The Observatory, 2/1/22) You’re More Than Your Title
• (Gov Tech Review, 12/3/21) 3 Ways Government Employees Can Bolster Their Cyberhygiene
• (IT Brief AU, 10/14/21) Enterprise IT risk: Mitigating the growing threat to remote networks
• (TechInvest, 10/13/21) Once Bitten, Twice Shy: How IT Pros Can Better Prepare for the Shift to Hybrid Work
• (Gov Tech Review, 10/1/21) How IT Pros Can Help Prepare the Public Sector for the Future of Work
• (ITProDay, 9/23/21) Everything I Needed to Know, Leaping From the Pages in a Single Bound
• (OrangeMatter, 9/22/21) Speaking Up: Bridging the Space Between the Idea and the Publish Button
• (OrangeMatter, 9/20/21) Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part Two)
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (OrangeMatter, 9/17/21) Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part One)
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (Monitoring for Managers, 8/16/21) There Are No Technology Projects
• (OrangeMatter, 8/13/21) You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So measure what you want to fix)
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (365Master, 8/11/21) What IT Pros Should Consider in the new Norms
  • (localized to Chinese)
• (OrangeMatter, 8/2/21) IT Pro Day 2021: Bring It On
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (OrangeMatter, 7/28/21) SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough
  • And on GeekSpeak
• (Monitoring for Managers, 7/26/21) Would You Like Everything With That?
• (TechInvest, 7/22/21) In These Strange Times, Can IT Pros Find an Ally in Automation?
• (IT Wire, 7/15/2021) What’s the Next Play for IT Pros in the BFSI Industry?
• (TechInvest, 7/13/2021 Software-Defined Data Centres: 3 Key Considerations for Government Agencies
• (HelpNet Security, 7/7/2021) Finding the right SD-WAN in a crowded market
• (OrangeMatter, 7/2/2021) Confidence
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (OrangeMatter, 6/29/2021) You Have to EARN the Gorilla Suit!
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (RetailBiz, 6/22/21) EOFY customers are coming – is your business prepared?
• (EJInsight, 6/22/21) What’s the next play for IT professionals in finance sector?
• (OrangeMatter, 6/22/2021) A Cautionary Toy… I Mean Tale
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (Security-insider.de, 6/17/2021) Welches ist das richtige SD-WAN?
• (Monitoring for Managers, 6/14/21) Question 4: Finding Sound and Significance
• (OrangeMatter, 6/8/2021) Geek Pride Day – The Extended Cut
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (EJ Insights, 6/3/2021) Tips for improving digital retail experiences
• (OrangeMatter, 5/31/2021) Nothing is Ever Wasted (part 2)
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (OrangeMatter, 5/25/2021) Nothing is Ever Wasted (part 1)
  • and on GeekSpeak
• (OpsMatters, 5/25/2021) Geek Pride Day: SolarWinds Head Geeks Reflect on What it Means to be a Geek
• (IP-Insider, 5/19/2021) Welches ist das richtige SD-WAN?
• (Monitoring For Managers, 5/15/2021) Question 3: Don’t Close the Ticket, Fix the Problem
• (Torah&&Tech, 4/15/21) Every Conversations Begins With a Question
• (OrangeMatter, 4/11/2021) Giving Monitoring a Shot
• (GeekSpeak, 4/30/2021) Un-Excuse-ing Upgrades
• (GeekSpeak, 4/16/2021) IT Life Coach: Tips for Bridging the IT Career Gap
• (Monitoring For Managers, 4/15/2021) Question 2: Fixing False Positives
• (GeekSpeak, 4/9/2021) IT Life Coach: Tips for Better Monitoring
• (GeekSpeak, 4/2/2021) IT Life Coach: Tips for the Busy Network Engineer
• (GeekSpeak, 3/26/2021) IT Life Coach: Tips for the Busy SysAdmin
• (OrangeMatter, 3/23/2021) Enterprise IT Cost Containment—A Series
• (GeekSpeak, 3/19/2021) Introducing the IT Life Coach Series
• (Monitoring For Managers, 3/15/2021) Question 1: Looking for a Monitoring Concept Primer
• (GeekSpeak, 3/11/2021) Monitoring for Managers – a New Monthly Series
• (TechInvest, 3/11/2021) What IT Pros Should Consider for Their 2021 Resolutions
• (OrangeMatter, 3/8/2021) Upgrade tales from the Ticket Queue
  • (and on GeekSpeak) Upgrade Tales from the Ticket Queue
• (OrangeMatter, 3/2/2021) SUDO Teach Me a Lesson
  • (and on GeekSpeak): SUDO Teach Me a Lesson
• (OrangeMatter, 3/1/2021) Change is Hard
  • (and on GeekSpeak): Change is Hard
• (Frontier Enterprise, 2/16/2021) 4 tips for a successful relationship (with your IT ecosystem)
• (OrangeMatter, 2/3/2021) Anything But Soft: The Tech Skills You’ll Need For 2021
• (GeekSpeak, 2/1/2021) IT Life Coach: Monitoring
• (GeekSpeak, 1/1/2021) December Writing Challenge: Day n+1
• (GeekSpeak, 12/31/2020) December Writing Challenge Summary Week 5
• (GeekSpeak, 12/25/2020) December Writing Challenge Summary Week 4
• (GeekSpeak, 12/18/2020) December Writing Challenge Summary Week 3
• (GeekSpeak, 12/11/2020) December Writing Challenge Summary Week 2
• (RetailBiz, 12/9/2020) Can your retail network keep online shoppers jolly this holiday season? 
• (DigiCon Asia, 12/7/2020) 8 Winds of (IT) Change heading our way in 2021
• (Industrial Automation Asia Online, 12/7/2020) Digital Twins For Manufacturing: Fad Or Futureproof?
• (GeekSpeak, 12/4/2020) December Writing Challenge Summary Week 1
• (FutureCIO, 12/3/2020) SolarWinds predictions for 2021
• (GeekSpeak, 12/1/2020) December Writing Challenge Day One: Connecting in a Disconnected World
• (GeekSpeak, 11/30/2020) December Writing Challenge: Day Zero
• (GeekSpeak, 11/30/2020) Announcing the December Writing Challenge
• (VMBlog, 11/19/2020) Optimize Today’s Tech for Tomorrow’s Success
• (GeekSpeak, 11/13/2020) THWACKcamp Day Two Wrap-Up
• (GeekSpeak, 11/12/2020) THWACKcamp Day One Wrap-Up
• (APM Digest, 11/09/2020) Application Stability Management vs. Application Performance Management – Who Needs Them and Why
• (OrangeMatter, 10/16/2020) Tried and True Tech Tips
• (NT4Admins, 10/6/2020) Künstliche Intelligenz und ihre Vorteile
• (OrangeMatter, 9/23/2020) Attitude Adjustment: Accentuate the Positive
• (TechInvest, 9/22/2020) Digital Twins: No Longer a Pipe Dream for Manufacturing?
• (TechInvest, 9/21/2020) Turns Out IT’s “New Normal” Is Much of the Same
• (People Matters, 9/21/2020) WFH 101: What happens when IT is in lockdown?
• (TechInvest, 8/18/2020) Here’s How IT Can Talk Its Way to Better Budgets
• (OrangeMatter, 8/17/2020) 2020: The Year IT Pros Were Built For
• (OrangeMatter, 8/10/2020) It Takes a Village to Save a Spreadsheet
• (Dataversity, 8/3/2020) The Changing Face of IT
• (GeekSpeak, 7/31/2020) SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”
• (CIO Sweden, 7/25/2020) Sju sätt att hantera underpresterande medarbetare
  (translation: “Seven ways to handle underperforming employees”)
• (Hospital and Healthcare, 7/23/2020) Can IT cure health care’s hybrid cloud woes?
• (VMBlog, 7/20/2020) How IT Pros Can Maximize Their Summertime
• (OrangeMatter, 7/17/2020) Friendship Is Magic. And Harder Than It Looks.
• (OrangeMatter, 7/15/2020) The Harsh Realities of Working From Home
• (OrangeMatter, 7/13/2020) Distributed Computing – When Everyone Is Working From Home
• (365Master, 7/13/2020) 从“居家办公”到灵活复工，IT专业人士应如何应对“新常态”
  (translation: From “home office” to flexible resumption of work, how should IT professionals deal with the “new normal”)
• (OrangeMatter, 7/10/2020) Hunting and Gathering in the Age of COVID
• (Data & Storage Asean, 6/26/2020) Hybrid Cloud Adoption in Healthcare: A Dose of Reality for IT Pros
• (Networks Europe Magazine, 6/25/2020) Remote Workers of the World Unite
• (??, 6/24/2020) IT如何“治愈”医疗行业混合云的“隐疾”
  • “How IT can cure the hidden diseases of the hybrid cloud in the medical industry”
• (IT Pro Portal, 6/24/2020) Q&A: Rising cloud spend and the need for cloud economists
• (OrangeMatter, 5/27/2020) Career Corner: How to Promote Yourself Without Sounding Like a Jerk
• (APM Digest, 5/21/2020) IT Pros Prioritizing APM, Hybrid Management and Security
• (OrangeMatter, 5/8/2020) Take Your Video Call Out of This World
• (CIO Magazine, 5/5/2020) 7 ways to root out IT staff incompetence
  • (The Standard CIO, 7/27/2021) Incompetencia y las 7 formas de erradicarla en el personal de TI
• (PC World, 5/4/2020) How IT Pros Can Make Remote Working a Breeze—Even for Themselves
• (Mission Critical, 5/1/2020) Hyperconverged Infrastructure Versus Cloud Strategies
• (APM Digest, t4/28/2020) Over a Decade as a Remote IT Professional: Here’s My Advice
• (Orange Matter, 3/26/2020) The Work From Home Series
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Introduction
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Finding Community and Connection
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Work Life at Home
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Home Life at Work
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Stay on Task and On Time
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: How Work Actually Gets Done
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Collaboration at a Distance
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Clear Communication
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Being Heard When You’re Not in the Room
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Sometimes It IS About the Tech
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Additional (external) Resources
  • The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: The Mostly Un-Necessary Summary
• (MyTechDecisions, 3/31/2020) Your Employees Can Take Steps to Beef Up Their Home Network Security — Here’s How
• (VMBlog, 3/16/2020) Leon Adato of SolarWinds Talks Tech Pros and Remote Work During COVID-19
• (DataVersity, 3/9/2020) How Execs Can Evolve as Industry Evolves
• (VMBlog, 2/19/2020) Calling All SMB Leaders: Help Your Pros Skill Up to Keep Up
• (THWACK, 1/28/2020) Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, (The Sequel)
• (DataVersity, 1/20/2020) A “Thing” Explainer – Technology Edition
• (IP-Insider.de, 1/14/2020) 7 Technikprognosen für 2020
• (VMBlog, 1/2/2020) SolarWinds 2020 Predictions: Evolving Executives in an Evolving Industry

Videos (most recent first)

• (What’s New at Kentik, TBD) What’s New at Kentik, episode 10
• (What’s New at Kentik, 9/18/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 9
• (What’s New at Kentik, 8/20/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 8
• (Kentik Close-Up, 7/31/24) Ep 4: Cloud Costs
• (Kentik Close-Up, 7/18/24) Ep 3: NMS
• (What’s New at Kentik, 7/9/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 7
• (Kentik How-To, 7/8/24) What Is Network Monitoring?
• (Kentik How-To, 7/3/24) Exploring NetFlow – A Simple Explainer
• (Kentik Close-Up, 6/11/24) Support
• (Kentik Close-Up, 5/29/24) PeeringDB Integration
• (What’s New at Kentik, 5/21/24) What’s New at Kentik episode 6
• (What’s New at Kentik, 4/8/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 5
• (Kentik YouTube, 4/15/24) How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics
• (Kentik YouTube, 3/21/24) Configuring Multiple Custom SNMP Metrics in Kentik NMS
• (Kentik YouTube, 3/14/24) A Day in the Life: Getting to Work with Kentik NMS
• (What’s New at Kentik, 3/5/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 4
• (What’s New at Kentik, 1/29/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 3
• (Teck Talk, 1/9/24) Shifting Left to Cast a Wide Safety Net with Leon Adato
• (What’s New at Kentik, 01/03/24) What’s New at Kentik, episode 2
• (What’s New at Kentik, 11/29/23) What’s New at Kentik, episode 1
• (On Premise IT, 11/28/23) Identity Management is Tweaking our Neuroses
• (What’s New at Kentik, 11/16/23) What’s New at Kentik episode 0
• (Kentik video, 11/15/23) Alerts don’t suck, YOUR alerts suck!
• (How Do You Say, 9/20/23) How Do You Say with Leon Adato
• (The UpTime, 5/2022 – 10/2023) Writing, research, and conversation flow
• (Changelog, 8/29,23) Enhancements to New Relic Queries and Logs
• (Changelog, 8/24/23) APM 360
• (New Relic webinar, 6/26/23) Shift thinking of Dev’s sec. Ops. and Observability Practices
• (Changelog, 3/29/23) AWS Linux 2023
• (Changelog, 3/13/23) Introducing the Observability Maturity Architecture
• (Changelog, 2/13/23) Azure native New Relic
• (Changelog, 2/3/23) Promethius: The Data is Out There!
• (Changelog, 2/2/23) Vulnerability Management
• (Changelog, 1/31/23) Change Tracking
• (New Relic, 1/5/23) Absolutely Simple JSON Metrics with New Relic Flex Pt 2
• (New Relic, 1/5/23) Absolutely Simple Script Metrics with New Relic Flex Pt 1
• (New Relic, 1/5/23) Absolutely Simple Custom Monitoring with New Relic Flex
• (Changelog, 12/08/22) Errors Inbox
• (Changelog, 11/18/22) Enhancements to NRQL
• (Changelog, 10/18/22) Binge on Roku Monitoring Data
• (Changelog, 10/18/22) VPC Flow Logs
• (Changelog, 9/7/22) SAP
• (Changelog, 9/2/22) What’s New with the New New Relic UI
• (Changelog, 9/24/22) New Relic Logging
• (New Relic, 8/19/22) Absolutely simple network monitoring, part 2
• (New Relic, 8/19/22) Absolutely simple network monitoring, part 1
• (New Relic, 8/19/22) Absolutely Simple Infrastructure Monitoring
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/28/21) Troubleshooting the Internet: If You Can’t Have Authority, Visibility Will Do
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/23/21) Controlling Cloud Cost Requires a Change in IT Financial Perspective
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/16/21) IT Service Management: Streamline Your Workflows to Make Everyone Happier
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/14/21) Overprovisioned and Overspent: Optimize Before You Lift and Shift
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/09/21) Application Tracing Is for Everyone Now
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/07/21) Cloud or On-Prem? With Monitoring, It’s Both-And, Not Either-Or
• (SolarWinds & ActualTech Media, 9/02/21) Why Change Control for Your Servers Is Important, and How to Do It
• (SolarWinds, 02/25/2021) IT Life Coach: Career
• (SolarWinds, 02/25/2021) IT Life Coach: Security
• (SolarWinds, 02/25/2021) IT Life Coach: Server Management
• (SolarWinds, 02/25/2021) IT Life Coach: Networking
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Signal From the Noise: A Career Built by Monitoring
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) The Perfect Lab – Cloud and GNS3
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) How to “People” Better
• (THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Monitoring Journey Live Q&A