Monthly Archives: August 2019

Attacks Using Attacks

Posted on August 7, 2019 by way0utwest

Not too long ago I wrote about a security failure from an AI company, Evisort, that had a development database exposed on the Internet. There were reports of customer information being exposed and initially it appeared the Evisort was being … Continue reading →

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Expose Multiple Docker Ports

Posted on August 7, 2019 by way0utwest

I was working with containers recently with Jenkins. I didn’t want the server process running on my machine all the time, but I did need to allow some communication. Jenkins uses 8080 by default, but agents need another port. I … Continue reading →

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Cloud Migration Challenges

Posted on August 6, 2019 by way0utwest

Like many of the trends in technology, I’ve been skeptical of the movement to the cloud. Quite a few people that I have discussed this with across the last five years have had concerns, and real challenges with latency, performance, … Continue reading →

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The Aware DBA

Posted on August 5, 2019 by way0utwest

A long time ago, at least, a long time in the eyes of my kids, I worked for a large organization as a production DBA. We had a generic monitoring tool, but it wasn’t SQL Server specific. I ended up … Continue reading →

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