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Burning the Candles, Thanks Corona Style

Your IT Engineers ensure, that your business can still run
While at home you sit complain that isolation is not fun.

And to that note, the network teams who hard at work perform
Ensuring uptime, traffic shaping, temples rubbed raw, worn…..

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FISERV Fun Leadership Other

A little art, a little science

When work, art, science, and heroes intersect.

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A spoonful of Kool-Aid
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Inside Bill’s Brain : An infomercial chockful of tang

I finally had a chance this weekend to sit down and watch the three-part Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain” about Bill Gates. As someone who worked at Microsoft in the waning years of significant “Bill involvement” through his transition into his next chapter of life, I was really curious how he would be portrayed in […]

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You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Dilbert nails it again. I feel like this conversation happens at least three times a week. One would think that with the “Cloud” being around for a few years, with examples of many failed attempts and lessons learned being in relative abundance — This would start to be an exception rather than the rule. Alas, […]

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This is how Docker Was Born
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The birth of tomorrow…

🙂

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OMG THIS! – Elon Musk’s Three Rules for a Meeting

This Inc Article on Elon Musk’s three rules for meetings is a must read. I say that as it is a spiritual companion philosophy to my own meeting rules where a meeting can only be one of three types: Distribute, Discuss, or Decide. Distribute – Usually a town-hall or informational update where the flow of […]

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Balancing Redundancy and Availability – A good think

I recently read an interesting blog post by Marc Brooker who is an engineer at Amazon working on Lambda Services. The full post (found here) is worth a read and some real think time for your own environments. It discusses his four rules around when/how to identify if Redundancy actually assists availability. His rules are […]

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The Truth is...
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It doesn’t have to be the truth…

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Loosebolts General Other

Poof! Where did all your posts go!

If you are a long time reader you may be wondering what happened to all of my posts from 2002 through roughly August of 2019 and where they went. The simple answer is this: The posts are still there. All archived off. Including all of the witty and not so witty comments I have collected […]

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Testing out new Theme for Re-Launch of Loosebolts

Test Plug post to play around with new theme format, sizing, look, feel, and stuff like that. Nothing to read here unless you are super bored.

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