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I recently stumbled into yet another interesting issue that turned out to be a bug in the SSD firmware of some Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches. We had performed an upgrade in two of our Data Centers just over 3 years ago using the Cisco Nexus 9000 … [Continue reading]
You always need to be learning in the technology field, it's a field that is constantly evolving and to that point you need to be constantly expanding your knowledge and testing out new products, methods, solutions, etc.I'm not a big fan of … [Continue reading]
Things certainly went south for Facebook today in a spectacular way as Reddit and other forums lit up with posts about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp being down and unreachable. Someone asked me a simple question? How do you troubleshoot an outage … [Continue reading]
I was recently having a conversation with a DevOps colleague (let's not jeer too loudly) who was trying to understand why he wasn't getting more than 350Mbps between two servers over a 1Gbps WAN connection. He thought there must be a problem with the … [Continue reading]
I'm still alive, just super busy these days... here's a quick one for anyone using the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 (the issue also impacts a bunch of other models).It turns out there are multiple models of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14, one with an Intel … [Continue reading]