I took three networking courses in my MSCS program at CU Boulder: Network Systems Foundation, Linux Networking, and Cloud Networking. I expected them to be review material since I already had a CCN...

Quick one. This got me on a Friday afternoon and I don’t want it to bite you. When configuring the azurerm backend for Terraform remote state in Azure Storage, you have a key field: terraform { ...

I got into CU Boulder’s MSCS program with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work. No CS undergrad. No bootcamp certificate. Just a trail of self-study courses, a stack of industry certifications, and t...

I ran into this one while building out Terraform modules for AKS cluster provisioning, and it took me way longer than I’d like to admit to figure out what was happening. I had a dedicated node poo...

I applied to Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program in early 2024. It’s one of the most accessible and respected online CS master’s programs in the country, and it was the obvious target for someone like me:...

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 dropped this week and they’re calling it a “point release.” I don’t know who decided that. It is not a point release. Threat Hunter and IoC Detection The two b...

Veeam announced updates to VDC Vault at Microsoft Ignite: two new pricing tiers, flat per-TB pricing, and direct integration with the VBR console. On the surface it’s a storage product announcement...

Most engineers work on one infrastructure environment. Maybe two if they’re lucky and have a decent home lab. I’ve worked on hundreds, and I didn’t have to change jobs to do it. Veeam’s Cloud and ...

Veeam Backup & Replication v12.2 shipped last week. The feature that jumped off the page for me was Proxmox VE support. Background Since Broadcom closed the VMware deal, the licensing changes...

Every week, I was spending hours on compliance reporting. Pull data from one system, cross-reference it with another, format it for leadership, paste it into the right template. It was the kind of ...