Category Archives: Editorial

Password Guidance

Posted on September 10, 2025 by way0utwest

I remember working at a large organization with a team of other IT Operations staffers. We rotated this one job every month amongst a few people, each taking turns, where we’d lose a day to update all the privileged passwords … Continue reading →

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Requiring Technical Debt Payments

Posted on September 7, 2025 by way0utwest

I was working with a customer recently that is trying to improve their processes. This was a large company, over 100,000 employees, though most of them aren’t in the technology area. However, across many divisions and groups, there are a … Continue reading →

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Learning a New Language

Posted on September 6, 2025 by way0utwest

This week, there are two interesting articles in the newsletter. The first is a markdown getting started article, which helps you learn how to format your documents. At first, I wasn’t sure I liked markdown, but I’ve come to prefer … Continue reading →

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Guidelines and Requirements

Posted on September 5, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw a post from Brent that Microsoft had changed the default memory guidance. At first glance I read this as they’d changed the default values, which would be interesting. However, this is a guideline, set to 75%. I also … Continue reading →

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