Aug 1, 2021What can Notre Dame teach us about site reliability?Back in 2019 Notre Dame suffered a horrific fire. The New York Times did one the best interactive articles I have seen chronicling the events that took place https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe/notre-dame.html During the same time our team was undergoing a reorganization and we were building a new SRE team. After reviewing the…Sre3 min readSre3 min read
Aug 1, 2021I’m boredAnd that is perfectly OK! What happened to our creativity? How do we boost it? When we are bored, a network of brain regions activates when we’re unfocused, when our mind is off and wandering. Over the past 70 years, we’ve killed off one of the main drivers of creativity: mind wandering. Mind wandering is a rest state that rebuilds…3 min read3 min read
Jul 25, 2021I love meetings!No one says that….. This is my current Slack avatarMeetings3 min readMeetings3 min read
Jul 25, 2021Attracting and recruiting talent in the second half of 2021We are just now entering the second half of 2021 and the single greatest challenge for organizations is finding and retaining talent. Let’s dive in to some ideas that will enhance and streamline the process both for you and your candidates 1) Publish your clearly defined remote working policy. Is it employee choice? A hybrid solution where you will work 2 days a week from the office building? Put this on your…Recruiting5 min readRecruiting5 min read
Jul 11, 2021What can we learn from GE?General Electric was valued at $600 billion in 2000 and had over 300,000 employees world-wide. Their stock price peaked at $32 but it plummeted to a record low of $5 last year. …4 min read4 min read
Jun 28, 2021Cyber Insurance is not a Cybersecurity strategyUp until recently, companies were leaning on their cyber insurance policy as their business continuity plan and cyber defense strategy. It was an excuse to not invest in good security practices and products because the policy would cover financial losses meaning they could cut IT investment. This is coming to…4 min read4 min read
Jun 28, 2021Should we test in production?The challenge with any testing is when we do not have an exact duplicate of production in a lower environment to test on. This is often…3 min read3 min read
Jun 12, 2021Flooding DynamoDBThere are three DynamoDB limits you must know An individual record in DynamoDB is called an item, and a single DynamoDB item cannot exceed 400KB. There is a 1MB limit on the size of an individual scan or query request. You can use up to 3,000 Read Capacity Units (RCUs)…Dynamodb2 min readDynamodb2 min read
Jun 6, 2021Stretching the limits of Amazon AWS EFSI faced a challenge with our EFS throughput which caused significant load increases on our EC2 instances (upwards of 30,000!!) as well as extreme delays reading and writing to the EFS volume. The EFS volume (network storage) was setup in Bursting Throughput mode which means that Amazon scales the throughput…Aws Efs3 min readAws Efs3 min read
May 31, 2021AI. What it will and wont do & the challenges aheadEpic just unveiled Unreal Engine 5 and it looks amazing! Intel Labs is working with Grand Theft Auto on a new machine learning project called Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement and the footage looks unreal. It will be hard to distinguish video games from real life soon, which got me thinking….Where are…6 min read6 min read
