What 15 Years in IT Has Taught Me About People, Process, and Tools
04/10/25 For the past 15 years, I’ve worked as a production database administrator, progressing through roles including Team Lead DBA and Principal DBA, though never formally holdi…
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Automating Linux bare-metal server deployment in Hetzner with Ansible
Our Ansible playbook, released as an Open Source project, helps you deploy and configure bare-metal servers in the Hetzner data centre. See how it works, and leverage it for your n…
Struggling to Unite Your Team? Start by Unifying Your Tools
10/22/24 Facilitating teamwork is often regarded as a matter for HR, while technology is seen as solely an infrastructural concern. But is it really that simple? In Tool Sprawl and…
Tool Sprawl and How to Stop It
09/30/24 Humans have always used tools to help them achieve their goals. But in the digital era, this dynamic is often reversed. Our tools now inundate us with so much attention-de…
ITSM and Observability: Eliminate tool sprawl, accelerate issue resolution, and ensure SLAs while delighting end users
11/22/22 Over the past twenty years I have been working in tech, I have seen a variety of products and solutions come and go. For many, it is because they overly complicate somethi…
3 Ways Educational Institutions Can Avoid IT Tool Sprawl
07/29/22 As more and more money enters the state and local government budgets from pandemic relief funds like The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program,…
3 Ways IT Teams Can Manage Tool Sprawl
10/25/21 Since schools transitioned to remote learning, districts have added or upgraded their IT education technology and monitoring tools to provide better outcomes for all. But …
Better Tools = Better Monitoring
05/09/21 Everyone loves tools. Whether you’re a weekend craftsman, an aspiring chef, or a serious IT professional, the tools you use can make your tasks much easier. Monitoring too…
How to Prevent Tool Sprawl in Your DevOps Toolchain
06/19/19 But there’s a high chance you’re drowning in tool number 9,001. The tool sprawl, like VM sprawl after we started using virtualization 10-15 years ago, is real. In this pos…
How to Pick the Best Data Center Monitoring Tools for Your Business
02/26/19 New technologies creep up every year, and many of those technologies live on data center hardware, servers, networking equipment, and even mobile devices. Keeping track of…