Every team, every operation, and even every object has its weakest link. You can’t remove the weakest link as another aspect will take its place. Hence business, like every other area of life is consistently addressing the weakest link to raise the strength of the whole. Our team, like make is constrained on resources, specifically …
Many will rightly ask “what’s up with the religious content in your posts”? I say rightly because it’s abnormal these days as society in general avoids discussions of politics or religion to keep away from areas that cause conflict. In many contexts this seemingly works well in the immediate term, but everyone addresses life via …
I recently switched over an Nginx server so that it was being accessed via an HAproxy tcp connection that was now sending proxy protocol information. When I did this I started to get PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR issues from my browser. While it seems simple, the fix is to ensure that your nginx listener has the proxy_protocol configuration …
A co-worker of mine has a reputation of saying that backups aren’t regularly tested aren’t actual backups. While this seems a bit harsh, it’s absolutely correct. I present to you (from my home environment) yet another reason why this is true… As you can see from the above screenshot I have a file named nc-data-backup-20211221.tar.gz …
Over the past several years there has been a move to the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. This was thanks to Google’s sharing of operational experiences through their book Site Reliability Engineering – How Google Runs Production Systems. Now, there is no shortage of SRE jobs wherever you look. The ultimate goal of this move …
A while ago I was talking to a company’s security team and was inquiring about their concerns when it came to cybersecurity issues. During that conversation it was rather surprising that incident response (while important) was voiced as the top issue. I found this surprising because, after all, if you don’t know what you have, …
Many individuals have asked what I do, and the answer varies depending on who is asking. It’s usually either a generic “I work in IT”, or a detailed explanation, because very few people have heard of a Service Maturity Architect. Here’s my written attempt to explain what this niche role is, and why it’s critical …