Posts made by NetworkNerd

After I recent trip to present at the Boston VMUG on VMware Documentation, I have updated and re-launched the blog series on documentation. If you want to read up on the ins and outs of where to find documentation for various things related to VMware products and services, check out this post. I hope to update it regularly so it is helpful to community members.

So you think you want to be a manager? Do you think you have what it takes to develop a team? Listen in on part 2 of our interview with Charlie Nichol for some great tips on whether management is right for you. Get the full episode here.

What would you do if your manager encouraged you to pursue a career path you had ruled out or didn't want? That's exactly what our guest this week, Charlie Nichol, experienced. Listen to how Charlie decided to go all in on the path to management and what it takes to move from player to coach. Get the full episode here.

In typical fashion, this is a two-part interview. Next week we will have the conclusion.

This week John and I share our experiences at VMworld US 2019. We discuss presentations, networking with others, and some general feedback on attending technology conferences for career acceleration. Get the full episode here.

It's the golden episode (50)! This week we get tips on how to identify company culture from a HR Professional and some ways that HR can affect company culture. Also, how can you better work with the HR team at your organization? Check out the full episode here.

This episode is a discussion with an HR Professional on different PTO options companies may offer, how the company views PTO, and some tips for negotiating for more PTO. Get the full episode here.

This episode is an overview of a career session done by Amanda Blevins from VMworld 2018. We weigh in with our thoughts on the session but definitely encourage you to go and check it out for yourself.

Get the full episode here.

I do. She was the one in the video. It looks like that position has now been closed based on their site.

Thus far in our series, we’ve successfully shipped pihole.log lines to a Wavefront proxy in AWS EC2 and verified the proxy’s receipt of the logs. No data from the logs is being passed to Wavefront just yet, so it’s time to take a deeper look at the log contents and extract some data to be used as metrics. We’re looking for time series data (or things we can turn into time series data). Tracking the changes over time and the frequency of those changes could give a great deal of insight.

In this blog post, we see a glimpse of how to create metrics from logs. The time series metrics analyzed in that post came from parsing the data inside logs sent to a Wavefront proxy. Based on this document, we can leverage our logsIngestion.yaml file (or the yaml file we chose to specify using the logsIngestionConfigFile parameter in wavefront.conf) on the Wavefront proxy and grok patterns to perform this transformation. These grok patterns form a collective set of rules that determine exactly what data is sent from the proxy to our Wavefront instance’s collector gateway and thus will show up in the user interface.

Get the rest of the post here.

If you only had one IT conference in the budget this year, how do you decide which one? What criteria should you use? How would you sell attendance to the boss? We talk through all this and more this week. Get the full episode here.

And yes, we do have Nerd Journey stickers.

Have you ever put your health at risk to finish a project? If so, has the pattern ever led you close to burnout? Hopefully you, like our guest, have learned something from these experiences. Check out part 2 of Keiran's story here.

In my last post in this series, it looks like we have everything in place for the Wavefront proxy to receive Pi-hole log data (only sending data from pihole.log for now), but how can we confirmed the logs were received by the proxy before working to create metrics from the log contents? This particular part stumped me big time as I was going through it. I thought it might be helpful to share attempted dead ends to show the thought process.

You can read the rest of the story here.

@scottalanmiller I still think the donut conversation merits a separate post here.

With VMworld US and Spiceworld happening in the near future, I'm curious as to how many would agree with my claim that strategies for selecting and spending time at a technology conference aren't so different than those you would use for a theme park.

The full post can be found here.

DATE & TIME
Tuesday, Aug, 13
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

LOCATION
Tierpoint
820 Allen Commerce Parkway
Allen, TX 75013
United States

The datacenter tour is back! Come join in for some nerdy conversations and a tour of Tierpoint's facility in Allen. Full details and RSVP can be found here.

It seems unlikely for candidates to get constructive feedback after participating in an interview after which they were not offered a job. But sometimes, you get feedback in these situations that changes your outlook and direction. The same thing happened to Keiran Shelden, and it completely changed his approach moving forward.

In this week's episode, Keiran tells the story of a CEO who took an interest in him and was willing to provide some feedback even after saying no. Has this ever happened to you? If you received feedback after being turned down for a job, what would you do with it? Would it push you to try harder next time or make you determined to prove the person who gave the feedback wrong?

http://nerd-journey.com/nerd-journey-046-career-advancement-keiran-shelden-pt-1/

This is the second post in a series in which I am attempting to send Pi-hole logs to Wavefront for analysis. Many thanks to community members who responded to this thread to help me get started choosing the right tool for the job.

Get the full story on the tool I picked and the configuration used here.

This the first post in a series where I'm exploring the idea of shipping logs from a Pi-hole to Wavefront for analysis. This post explores how to install a Wavefront proxy on a Ubuntu VM and ensure it is sending data to Wavefront.

The full post can be found here.

Are you having career conversations? If not, why not? If you are, what should they be like? What are your responsibilities and those of your manager before, during, and after? Get the full scoop here.

It has been one year since the launch of Nerd Journey. This week we take some time to review the podcast's genesis and how it has changed over the first year. Get the full episode here.