Archive

2025  5

August  2

Book Review: Software Engineering: After the Vibe Shift

August 18, 2025 · itsahill00

AI and Software Engineering August 2025

August 8, 2025 · itsahill00

May  1

Data Archival Part 1

May 31, 2025

March  1

Some Updates 2025

March 19, 2025

January  1

AWS GCP Azure Incidents 2024

January 5, 2025

2024  5

December  1

I joined Lambda Labs

December 26, 2024

October  1

Moving Away From wordpress.com

October 5, 2024 · itsahill00

July  1

GitOps Drawbacks

July 17, 2024 · itsahill00

February  1

Software Engineering and AI: My experience so far

February 16, 2024 · itsahill00

January  1

New Direction

January 3, 2024 · itsahill00

2023  2

December  1

Book Review: Tidy First?

December 15, 2023 · itsahill00

November  1

[REPORT] A Case Study in Community-Driven Software Adoption

November 3, 2023 · itsahill00

2022  2

October  1

Book Review: The Staff Engineer’s Path

October 22, 2022 · itsahill00

January  1

A Sound(bar) Annoyance

January 10, 2022 · itsahill00

2021  5

November  3

Book Review: API by Design

November 17, 2021 · itsahill00

Book Review: Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

November 10, 2021 · itsahill00

Book Review: Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

November 3, 2021 · itsahill00

October  2

On Call Run Books: There’s a Better Way

October 26, 2021 · itsahill00

On The Big Rewrite

October 12, 2021 · itsahill00

2020  4

March  1

OK Zoomer: My Zoom Pro Tips

March 31, 2020 · itsahill00

February  1

TLS redirect security

February 11, 2020 · itsahill00

January  2

Home Office: January 2020

January 21, 2020 · itsahill00

Office Ergonomics Review

January 10, 2020 · itsahill00

2019  2

September  1

A Fix for OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac

September 4, 2019 · itsahill00

February  1

CSV Imports into Google Cloud BigQuery

February 11, 2019 · itsahill00

2018  5

November  1

python-dateutil gotcha

November 30, 2018 · itsahill00

September  1

On Lifelong Learning

September 4, 2018 · itsahill00

August  1

Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

August 21, 2018 · itsahill00

July  1

Labels on Cloud Dataflow Instances for Cloud BigTable Exports

July 12, 2018 · itsahill00

March  1

Looking at PostGIS intersects queries

March 26, 2018 · itsahill00

2017  2

November  1

GPG Suite and gpg-agent forwarding

November 6, 2017 · itsahill00

September  1

Case Sensitive Filenames with VirtualBox and MacOS X

September 6, 2017 · itsahill00

2016  2

May  1

Book Review: Mastering Ansible

May 31, 2016 · itsahill00

March  1

F5 Rolling Deployments with Ansible

March 31, 2016 · itsahill00

2015  5

December  1

Giving FlowBAT a try

December 14, 2015 · itsahill00

October  1

Remediation as a Service

October 19, 2015 · itsahill00

April  2

Remote Work Update

April 27, 2015 · itsahill00

Troubleshooting LLDP

April 7, 2015 · itsahill00

January  1

SDN Development Environment

January 5, 2015 · itsahill00

2014  13

December  1

Graphite Events with a Timestamp

December 8, 2014 · itsahill00

November  1

My OpenStack Paris Summit Sessions

November 5, 2014 · itsahill00

October  1

nsxchecker: Verify the health of your NSX network

October 7, 2014 · itsahill00

September  1

Operating OpenStack: Monitoring RabbitMQ

September 2, 2014 · itsahill00

July  1

Monitoring Edge Node Network Configuration

July 28, 2014 · itsahill00

May  1

On Failure

May 9, 2014 · itsahill00

April  2

On Working Remote

April 29, 2014 · itsahill00

Required Reading: The Datacenter as a Computer

April 3, 2014 · itsahill00

March  1

Upgrading Open vSwitch

March 28, 2014 · itsahill00

February  3

StatsD and multiple metrics

February 13, 2014 · itsahill00

Deep Dive: OpenStack Retrieving Nova Instance Console URLs with XVP and XenAPI/XenServer

February 11, 2014 · itsahill00

The Host Network Stack

February 5, 2014 · itsahill00

January  1

Managing Nagios Configurations

January 22, 2014 · itsahill00

2013  7

December  2

Determining Enabled VLANs from SNMP with Python

December 13, 2013 · itsahill00

Personal Backups with Duply

December 8, 2013 · itsahill00

June  1

Network wiring with XenServer and Open vSwitch

June 26, 2013 · itsahill00

May  1

Measuring Virtual Networking Overhead

May 29, 2013 · itsahill00

April  1

Deep Dive: HTB Rate Limiting (QoS) with Open vSwitch and XenServer

April 29, 2013 · itsahill00

March  2

Using Swift and logrotate

March 31, 2013 · itsahill00

Home Lab setup

March 31, 2013 · itsahill00

2012  11

December  2

the grep is a lie

December 28, 2012 · itsahill00

Another Quick Post on ack

December 1, 2012 · itsahill00

November  3

Deep Dive: OpenStack Nova Snapshot Image Creation with XenAPI/XenServer and Glance

November 26, 2012 · itsahill00

Deep Dive: Openstack Nova Rescue Mode with XenAPI / XenServer

November 4, 2012 · itsahill00

Code Diving: Ack (Better than Grep)

November 2, 2012 · itsahill00

October  1

Deep dive: OpenStack Nova Resize Down with XenAPI/Xenserver

October 28, 2012 · itsahill00

September  3

The SDN Craze

September 21, 2012 · itsahill00

Deep Dive: OpenStack Nova Resize Up with XenAPI/Xenserver

September 13, 2012 · itsahill00

Cloud and Virtual Infrastructure

September 13, 2012 · itsahill00

May  1

Getting started with Vagrant

May 10, 2012 · itsahill00

April  1

Next Generation Knowledge Resources

April 25, 2012 · itsahill00

2011  3

November  1

New Direction

November 21, 2011 · itsahill00

February  2

What’s your VM chargeback model?

February 23, 2011 · itsahill00

Windows 2000 P2V in vCenter Converter 4: No more BSoD

February 17, 2011 · itsahill00

2010  3

December  1

Higher Ed: Virtualizing Banner Unified Digital Campus with VMware

December 8, 2010 · itsahill00

November  1

PowerCLI: nSeries Guest OS Timeout Scripts

November 30, 2010 · itsahill00

July  1

Gem in the VMware vCenter Converter 4.2 for vCenter Server Release Notes

July 24, 2010 · itsahill00

2009  19

December  1

VMware Expert System with PowerCLI and Excel

December 9, 2009 · itsahill00

August  4

Virtual Andy Update

August 27, 2009 · itsahill00

ESX 3.5 U4 Kickstart for IBM xSeries and QLA4050

August 27, 2009 · itsahill00

Upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 3.5 U4 and Virtual Center 2.5 to vCenter 2.5 U4

August 27, 2009 · itsahill00

iSCSI SAN performance woes with VMware ESX 3.5

August 27, 2009 · itsahill00

April  1

ESXi Snapshots not showing in VI Client

April 24, 2009 · itsahill00

March  1

AutoPager now works with VMTN and NetApp Technology Network sites

March 26, 2009 · itsahill00

February  7

Restoring VMware Virtual Machines from NetApp Snapshots

February 23, 2009 · itsahill00

PlanetV12n: My VMware RSS Feed Wish List

February 16, 2009 · itsahill00

VMware Knowledge Resources for the Beginner VI Administrator

February 16, 2009 · itsahill00

RHEL P2V: Old Way and New Way

February 13, 2009 · itsahill00

Get-VMStat and Resource Allocation

February 5, 2009 · itsahill00

VMware’s VCP Certification, my $0.02

February 5, 2009 · itsahill00

False Alarms with Virtual Center 2.5

February 4, 2009 · itsahill00

January  5

Our Storage Problem

January 27, 2009 · itsahill00

Chargeback: The Value Added Pitch

January 7, 2009 · itsahill00

How We Found Our Virtual Networking Mojo

January 7, 2009 · itsahill00

VI3 Value Added: System Deployment

January 3, 2009 · itsahill00

Welcome

January 3, 2009 · itsahill00

2008  4

September  1

VMware Consolidated Backup Explained

September 8, 2008 · itsahill00

August  2

Guide to Backing up your Virtual Machines with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

August 28, 2008 · itsahill00

VI-Toolkit: Calculate .vmdk size for Linux Guests

August 18, 2008 · itsahill00

June  1

Find total disk usage of snapshots on a given LUN

June 16, 2008 · itsahill00