First, as should be clear if you read more than half a blog post, I’m a computer geek, data nerd, tech fanboi – use whatever vaguely deprecating term you like. Second. I…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 2)
(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) “And you’re with me. And the journey’s finished. But after coming all that way I don’t want to give up yet. It’s not…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 1)
(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 4)
(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) At last comes their answer through cold and through frost,That not all who wonder or wander are lost,No matter the sorrow, no matter…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 3)
(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) Sing to me, sing to me, lands far away,Oh, rise up and guide me this wandering day.Please promise to find me this wandering…
Creating Crap Faster Isn’t an Improvement
Over the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter about ChatGPT, a writing tool built in OpenAI. So much noise, in fact, that everyone from CNN, the NYT, Forbes, the Atlantic, the…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 2)
(This post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) Of drink I have little and food I have less,My strength tells me no but the path demands yes,My legs are so short…
Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from “The Rings of Power” (part 1)
(The following post originally appeared on the New Relic Blog) Call to me, call to me, lands far away,For I must now wander this wandering day.Away I must wander this wandering day…..
“Managing up” in a digital age
After two years after COVID sent everyone running for cover, saying “I work from home” isn’t the conversation-stopper it once was. But my experience with remote work goes back further than the…
Monitoring multiple network devices with New Relic
(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) In my blog on Absolutely simple network monitoring, I described how to monitor a single network device. Now let’s up the ante: monitoring three (or more)…
Best practices for fixing your alerts
(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) Once upon a time, when I was but a wee monitoring engineer, I was noodling around in my monitoring solution and adjusted the trigger rules…