Have you ever encountered that special someone who smiles and nods when tech talk starts, only to reveal they think the cloud is an actual weather phenomenon storing their selfies? These bewildered souls roam among us, living in a delightful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a special kind of magic in how government agencies can turn the simplest tasks into multi-million dollar tech nightmares. While the rest of the world zips documents across the globe in seconds via email, many bureaucracies still cling to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re like me, you’ve at least been tangentially involved in one or two IT projects that relied more on hope than a solid plan. Such projects operate off the official methodology of “We’ll figure it out later” and “That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen far too many cases where employees treat security protocols like vague suggestions and file organization like an abstract art project. You ask for a report, and suddenly you’re spelunking through 12 layers of shared folders, each named “Misc,”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We can’t go through the Halloween season without mentioning a mummy or two, especially those pyramid-scheming crypto jerks from the 25th dynasty. Cryptocurrency has officially reached the “throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks” phase of its existence.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Your infrastructure grows like a beautiful garden in the cloud, except all the gardeners quit five years ago, and now you’re staring at a jungle of services wondering “What monster have we created?” The comic nails it: after a decade[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The tech world’s version of juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle is managing the multicloud without a dedicated multicloud management suite. Sure, spreading your apps across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud sounds smart (“We’ll just use the best of each!”),[…]↓ 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…
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…