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The Evolution of the SysAdmin: Why Infrastructure Knowledge Still Matters in a Cloud-First World
If you’ve worked in IT for more than twenty years, you’ve witnessed one of the biggest transformations our industry has ever experienced. The role of the traditional system administrator has gradually been divided into a collection of specialized positions: DevOps engineers, cloud architects, cybersecurity analysts, identity engineers, storage administrators, site reliability engineers, and countless others.…
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Cloud Connectivity in AWS: Choosing Between NAT and Internet Gateways
During a few of my AWS Cloud infrastructure build outs, client team members tend to wonder and ask why I use both Internet Gateway service, as well as a NAT Gateway service when setting up the network layer of the environment. Some with advanced networking knowledge made a point stating that we could skip the…
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The Dual-Edged Sword: How AI is Revolutionizing Cybersecurity and the New Threats It Poses to Businesses
Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have had a profound impact on cybersecurity, both positively and negatively. On one hand, AI has enabled organizations to enhance their security measures by automating threat detection, improving response times, and identifying complex patterns in network traffic that would be impossible for humans to recognize. AI-driven tools can analyze vast…
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Back Up and Running in Cloud Native
Finally had the time to rebuild and refresh the blog site. mekena.io in now full Cloud Native running in AWS (has always been, however in a more traditional server-based installation). The recent migration included an AWS Lightsail service that provides various bundles of OS/applications, which in my case is WordPress running on Linux. Various tiers…
