(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…
Absolutely simple network monitoring
(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) On my blog Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring, I wrote: Depending on your background, the process of instrumenting your applications, systems, and even your coffee pot makes…
In-Person Events, Reloaded
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) (This post is NOT a review of FutureStack as an event, or the recent announcements from New Relic. For that, you can check out this post. Rather,…
Absolutely simple infrastructure monitoring
(This article originally appeared on The Observatory) Depending on your background, the process of instrumenting your applications, systems, and even your coffee pot makes perfect sense. Requests to “pipe this curl command…
Develop a Sense of Code
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) The more the counter next to my years-in-tech metric increments upward, the more I find myself in situations where I talk about career path, skill decisions,…
Who Are We Helping?
(This article originally appeared on Dev.to) It’s hard to deny the truth that for a lot of us “difficult” means “good,” and “more difficult” is “even better.” From video games to exercise…