Category: General

Once upon a time (i.e. way back in October 2024) I wrapped up a blog in this series with: Believe it or not, there’s still more to cover. In the coming weeks whenever I get to it,…

I was asked why I thought OpenTelemetry was such an evolution in monitoring and observability. This is my answer.

In my last post on PHP Zmanim, I said the next thing I’d write about were astronomy calculations. I still plan to do that, but something came up recently that caught my…

It’s been a while since I wrote about PHP Zmanim – the work I’ve done with it and the things I’ve learned while implementing it. But despite the delay, I always intended…

This will be my last entry on the topic for a while. For context, I introduced the idea that folks don’t care about security, they care about outcomes in this post; and…

In my last post, I discussed the issue of getting people to care about security, and how it’s largely due to a focus on security behaviors rather than security outcomes. In this…

Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me…

(This post originally appeared on the Kentik blog) I was at a tech conference recently – one built by (and for) networking professionals – chatting with another attendee about the usual mix…

(This post originally appeared on the Kentik blog) The technology commonly referred to as “NetFlow,” by which I include everything from Cisco’s eponymous protocol, to JFlow, sFlow, and even VPC Flow Logs…

(This post originally appeared on the Kentik blog) These days, when you want to discuss tracking the state, stability, and overall performance of your environment, from the bottom layer of infrastructure all…