CLOUDY MUSINGS

Infrastructure changes have a way of producing unexpected side effects! (a.k.a. gather around for another lively lesson learned the hard way...) Sometimes it's a routing issue that doesn't surface until something tries to use the affected path. Sometimes it's a service dependency that nobody documented because it always just worked. And sometimes it's discovering that cloud management platforms don't automatically resume where they left off after you've changed the environmen

You'd be surprised by the kinds of questions I get from customers these days. A lot of them start in places that feel familiar enough. Someone wants to understand Microsoft's decision to deprecate WSUS. Someone else is trying to figure out whether Azure Update Manager makes sense for their environment. Another customer is looking at Linux for the first time after spending most of their career in Windows-centric shops. On the surface, those sound like completely different conv