After seven years at Veeam, I’m moving on. Starting May 4th I’ll be a Consultant Platform Engineer at Nationwide Insurance, working on their application and database platforms team: production EKS ...

Veeam Backup & Replication v13 just went GA. There’s a lot in it (Recon Scanner 3.0, a malware analysis AI agent, SAML SSO), but the thing I keep coming back to is the Software Appliance. What...

I’ve been at Veeam for six and a half years. I started as a support engineer taking calls from cloud service provider partners, and I’m now a Technical Lead serving as the senior escalation point a...

My MSCS at CU Boulder included a graduate certificate in Data Science. Probability theory, statistical inference, regression and classification, data mining methods and pipeline. On paper, that has...

Nora Heller was born today. I’ve spent years optimizing systems, chasing certifications, grinding through coursework, and building toward the next thing. Today none of that mattered at all, and it...

I took four algorithms-adjacent courses in my MSCS: Algorithms for Searching, Sorting, and Indexing; Dynamic Programming and Greedy Algorithms; Trees and Graphs; and the Georgia Tech Data Structure...

Between March and May I passed the AZ-104 (Azure Administrator), AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert), AZ-305 (Solutions Architect Expert), and the Terraform Associate. Four exams in about eight weeks. ...

VeeamON 2025 just wrapped in San Diego. Two things stood out to me. Entra ID Backup If you manage Azure infrastructure, you already know Entra ID is the thing holding everything together. Users, ...

If you work with Kubernetes daily and you’re still typing kubectl in full, here’s five minutes of setup that will save you hours. The Alias Add this to your .bashrc or .zshrc: alias k='kubectl' ...

My MSCS transcript has three ethics courses on it: Computing, Ethics, and Society Foundations Ethical Issues in AI and Professional Ethics Ethical Issues in Computing Applications When I ...