Many folks think large projects usually fail for technical reasons--software that doesn't work as advertised, bugs, and so on. In reality, that's not the case. In my experience, the most serious ...

Where do IT fundamentals fit in our modern, cloud- and abstraction-driven engineering culture? I was recently discussing the Sysadmin/DevOps/IT industry with a colleague, and we started marveling at ...

My friend Monil recently told me a very humorous story about an application administrator that was attempting to troubleshoot his application. To paraphrase… the application administrator had ...