In the physical world, crime tends to be an intimate affair – your cousin borrows your power tools forever, your ex mysteriously drains your joint Netflix account, and your neighbor’s cat stages a hostile takeover of your patio furniture. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Log4j exploit was the digital equivalent of discovering your entire house was built on toothpicks after the hurricane hits. This unassuming little logging library, hiding in the basement of your Java applications like a sleeper agent, turned out to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Picture this: Deep in some candlelit bunker beneath a Swiss bank, the world’s most powerful secret societies are holding an emergency meeting. The Grand Master of the Illuminati paces furiously, his robes swishing as he glares at a Bloomberg Terminal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A client of mine had backups and then was hit with ransomware. Unfortunately for them, they learned that their backups would take days to download from the cloud. This was something that should’ve been tested to ensure it met with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing says we didn’t think this through like building your mission-critical data center in a flood zone because the rent was cheap, or next to a fireworks factory because “the explosions make great stress tests!” Sure, that abandoned warehouse by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the age of convenience, where your smart speaker is basically that one friend who swears they’re not listening—but somehow knows way too much about your secret pizza binges and questionable karaoke choices. Sure, yelling “Hey Google, turn off[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No sane person would voluntarily sign up to crew under Captain Jack Sparrow. And yet, somehow, the man is never short of desperate, foolish, or temporarily insane individuals willing to join his misadventures. Why? Well, let’s examine the “benefits” of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the Walmart of the tomorrow, where shopping has been optimized into a surreal, frictionless nightmare of convenience. Gone are the days of wandering aisles like a confused peasant—now, every inch of this retail utopia has been engineered to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dreams of a sleek, all-cloud future crash headfirst into the “Oh crap, this 20-year-old system still runs payroll” reality in IT modernization. It’s like trying to renovate a haunted house while the ghosts (read: legacy servers) keep screaming “I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cloud is a magical place where your data lives, your dreams of simplicity go to die, and every tutorial starts with “First, configure your Kubernetes cluster” like that’s a normal thing to say. Sure, cloud platforms promise “infinite scalability”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…