Resilience A Reflection on Borrowing from Yourself This is a repackaging of a twitter thread I posted starting with this tweet here:Some thoughts on Cognitive Load post #FailoverConfAssumption here coming from @jpaulreed’s talk indicating “we’re probably all
Craft On Craft What do Open Source software and Craft Beer have in common? The characteristics of the developers. Craft Software is defined by passion, innovative tradition, openness & sharing, and community involvement.
2018 Coming at ya I may have rode out 2017 on vacation, but I feel like I'm full-on cartoon, legs spinning in the air before I hit the ground running into 2018. It's not really much, but
Mental Health Own worst enemy I probably have started this blog entry about 10 times. Over about five weeks. And typed about 3-5000 words about it. And here I am, starting over. So, I (am fairly certain I) have ADHD. Why? Because I started this blog poast about 10 times over five weeks...
Monitoring Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 4: Reformation This is the fourth part in a series on shifting our thoughts about Monitoring. All of this came from a talk I gave at GalaxZ'17 in Austin, TX earlier this year and was
Monitoring Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 3: New Partners This is part three in a series about monitoring all coming from a talk that I gave in Austin, TX at GalaxZ'17 and originally published at CageData.com. In part one I introlduced
Monitoring Skeptics in the Church of Data, pt.2: Empathetic Monitoring This is part two in a series about monitoring stemming from a talk that I gave in Austin, TX at GalaxZ'17 and published on Cage Data's Blog. In part one I initially brought
Monitoring Skeptics in the Church of Data, Pt. 1: Ein Minuten Bitte Here is where I begin as Martin Luther. Except I don't have 99 theses and nailing them to a church door seems both low tech for this conversation and like a prosecutable offense.
personal The Journey Continues There are always moments in our lives where there are things that happened before them, and things that happen after them.
A Home With anything new, it only seems fitting to christen it in some way. So with a blog, a first post. I've gotten to that point where I feel the need to collect what
DevOpsDays DevOpsDays 2017 -or- Why I Love This Community Some of the blog readers may know that I (Aaron) have been doing a bit of traveling lately. Some of the conferences I have been attending fall under the DevOpsDays heading. Recently, I
DevOps Retrospective: DevOps Days Rockies 2016 Originally posted to the Cage Data Blog I've been inaugurated with my first DevOps Days. It was a fantastic, exhausting weekend where I probably gained more perspective on the DevOps community in 2
DevOps Actionable Alerts: Reducing False Positives & Making On-Call Suck Less This was originally a guest post written for the VictorOps Blog. In the world of IT Operations, there is no escaping the Dreaded On-Call. Someone has to keep a look out at night
How-To Rebuilding Quick Actions in Outlook for Mac This was originally posted to CageData.com/blog As much as everyone loves to bag on Microsoft, I must say that I love their email client. Outlook has always been the most robust
