SQL Server 2019 is Now Available on Windows Containers—Why You’re Doing It Wrong
I try to avoid writing blog posts that I like to call “hot takes”—quick crappy opinions on the news of the day, but this is a topic I feel particularly strongly about. I’m not sure how many of you were using Microsoft’s Azure Hadoop offering HDInsight, when it debuted in the 2012-13 timeframe, but it […]
Adventures in Awful Application Design–Amtrak
I was going to New York last weekend from my home of Philadelphia. We were running late for the train, and for the first time ever, I had a booked an award ticket on Amtrak. For reasons unbeknownst to me, you can not make changes to an award ticket on their app (I didn’t try […]
Let’s Talk about Backups, and How to Make Them Easier
Recently I’ve run into a couple of situations where customers had lost key business data due to several factors. Whether it is ransomware, a virus, or just hardware failure, it doesn’t really matter how you lose your data, it just matters that your data is lost, and your business is now in a really bad […]
The Ransomware Breach You’re Going to Have
I don’t typically blog about network engineering here. However, in the last few weeks I’ve seen several major companies get hit with ransomware attacks. While this isn’t an uncommon thing in 2019, it is uncommon that their entire environments were taken offline because of it. So with that, let’s talk about how these attacks can […]