This is a collection of old posts from fen. Lots of these are out of date and may reflect ideas and views that have since been revised
Monitoring
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 the problem and in part two I discussed how we should start to change. Today
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 up the point of what I think is terrible in the current world
Monitoring
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
There are always moments in our lives where there are things that happened before them, and things that happen after them.
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 I've done (and my thoughts) in some place relatively easy to find. It
DevOpsDays
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 was at DevOpsDays Toronto and earlier this year at DevOpsDays Seattle. I've gone to so
DevOps
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 days than most of my working career. What's a DevOps Day anyway? If
DevOps
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 to make sure the business continues to run and we're not all going to get
How-To
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 and flexible mail client and their Quick Actions only added to that. Having customizable macros that can