IMPEDIMENTS Lisa was working on her masterplan for the coming year. She was bringing together all proposals from her teams. As CTO, she knew she needed to identify clusters of initiatives and,, importantly,ntly, explain “why” ...
AN UNEXPECTED NO It was 9.45 am, and Matt, the CTO of a large investment bank, decided to have a quick break before the next meeting. “What was that?” he wondered. “Oh yes, the monthly prospect initiatives proposal.” His tea...
4.16 AM - New York, New York Patricia dreamed about New York, her favorite place in the world, when her mobile rang, awakening her. It was 4.16 am. No good news at this time, she thought while answering the call. It was Mark,...
This post illustrates the basic steps to create your Github account and your first repo, with GPG integrated features, which enables you to verify your commits with your encryption key. Create Your Github Account set your ...
This post shows how Terraform works to provision infrastructure resources on AWS in full automation, with a use case covering the necessary steps to segregate environments and build a cross-VPC which offers management services ...
“Mark”, said his CEO, what is happening to our new app? I get weird behaviors, and I’m receiving phone calls from disappointed customers.” “I don’t know”, honestly replied Mark. “I’ll gather my SRE team to find out”. Mark got his team on board t...
It was 10:03 am, EST. My wife called: all their applications at work were down. They were worried as her company had completed their cloud migration to ‘DRT Cloud’ a few weeks earlier. No feedback from the cloud provider support, thoug...
Introduction Are you still running snowflake servers in your private datacenter? You’re not alone of course. And so am I. But what a significant part of your servers are still like that? Even if you virtualized most of them? Or, what if you’re ...
SRE brings Engineering Approach To IT Operations IT Operations excellence rarely isn’t a priority nowadays. Distributed and hybrid systems and service models are increasing reliability achievement challenges. Failures happen, in your on-premise ...
It is usual, also for mid-sized Companies, to have the IT infrastructure distributed among at least three data centers, probably located in different countries. And they can be a lot more, depending on the scale and the cloud adoption ...
I guess it might sound a bit weird, and recursive maybe, that my second post in my blog is about building your blog. The reason is probably best explained here: “If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand somethi...