Other than the main character being a manager, it is amazing how close this book mirrors my career path so far. This is fiction, but does a good job introducing business and cloud concepts. I would definitely recommend this for anyone in IT.
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A story that anyone from an IT operations background can relate to.
Everyone needs to do some housekeeping at different points, and I figured it was time I did some a basic security sweep of my setup. To get started, I performed a quick packet capture on the very server that hosts this blog. I decided to give one of CloudShark‘s newer and more distinct features a spin with my recently created account; their Threat Assessment tool. I thought it would be interesting to pit this against PacketTotal as well.
Note: I apologize for the loss of the screen shots. When I transferred my blog host the images were lost and I did not yet have a backup copy.
Being that I actually enjoy networking and it’s not just a job, I like to explore new and different technologies. I also like to continue to learn and branch into areas where I’m not as comfortable. One of these areas being firewalls.