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Increasingly having conversations (including one on FB in the last couple of days) about automation and robots and what it means to jobs and duties… so I’m curious what you think of it all? To me, it seems pretty likely (unavoidable?) that things that can be decided based on data will some of the most prime – and learning from […]
We have some really cool things happening with the upcoming virtual conference – I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to check out the site, but there are already some very cool sessions listed. We’re setting up the event so that sessions cover as many varied topics, ideas and information as possible – right now (this may increase) we’re […]
Amazon has already explained the issues that brought down so many sites and resources, and there is are some (not-so) subtle things to learn from the situation. When the services went down, it was due to human error, plain and simple. Well, not so simple (you can see their summary in long-form, here), but at its root, it wasn’t a […]
When things go crazy, that’s what you need a plan. It sounds so obvious… Whent things are in an unknown state you want to be executing your plan, not creating it. This true whether your systems are sitting in your own data center, or someone elses. The outage at Amazon no-doubt shined the light on many a DR plan that […]
This is not a critique of AWS or S3. Rather, a look at the response and what worked, what didn’t. As of this writing, no real specifics of what happened are available. The things we can learn, however, are immediately obvious on a few fronts. 1. Initial Response First, the initial response was all based on discovery when customers noticed […]
Do you still hold a release or update in anticipation of an unknown service pack? I was surprised to hear that some people do indeed still wait to update their systems – they wait for the next service pack after a major release. This was true “way back when” but I’ve not heard of this being a wide-spread approach of […]
As more and more high-availability support and more and more dependability in the cloud comes into play, have your HA requirements changed? I realize the easy answe is “Never! We need HA options to do HA right and make sure our real systems are up and available!” (Feel free to quote this in the comments). But more and more often, […]
I was talking with someone today that was under the impression that backups and restores were a thing of the past. Yikes. I never really anticipated someone feeling that way. Their systems are largely on-premise but they do use the cloud for some bigger workloads, storage and such. Their feeling was that things were so stable any more, and that […]
Even one of the comments from yesterday said it – “I don’t know where to start…” – boy, isn’t THAT the truth? Talking about what to learn, what priorities to pay attention to, where to start learning all of it. That’s the problem. The “all of it” part. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to that are […]
The talk of the pending demise of the DBA (not) leads us to, “OK then, how do we keep up??!” I know for me, and for those I work with, this has been one of the single biggest topics of discussion when it comes to professional life. Things are moving fast (no kidding) and going very broad. I think we’ve […]