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

AT&T Fiber arrived in my village (just outside of the greater Chicago metropolitan area) a little over a year ago. Residents rejoiced, as...