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2025 Blogging Review
Posting 2025 was a busy year, and I didn’t get as much writing done as in prior years. My process hasn’t changed from that described here, but job, band, and fitness commitments have left me wrung dry. The weekly reminder to post something still goes off, but I have been…
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When to Build Reliability
Features win sales. Lack of sales kills the company. Everyone in leadership can be focused on that as the wolf currently at the door. Most developers and product managers can agree as well; obviously we have to sell the bits to pay the people. What surprises us is that the…
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Prioritizing Vulnerability Findings
Most shops are small. Small shops as a rule (there are exceptions!) do not dedicate resources to security, and that represents risks to big shops that depend on those small shops. Big shops don’t like risk, so we have compliance baselines. Big shops usually have lots of dedicated security people…
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My First Digital Mixer
My band has multiple people who have vocals and at least one, maybe two instruments. We played three gigs with a stack of practice amps and Scarletts and switcher pedals. This makes knowledgeable people pause a moment and say “huh, you did what now?” So here’s how it works… two…
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Observing System Failures
The system is down, and half a dozen teams join a Zoom call that stretches over a couple of days and a Slack channel that lasts for weeks. Vendors and integration partners are bridged in and out, executives pop by to see what’s going on, and the hours pass with…
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Product Management Interview Help
An interview is inherently stressful for a lot of folks, particularly early in career. It’s a short window to talk with a person about changing companies, changing roles, returning to the workforce, starting a career. You might not seal the deal in a given interview, but you can certainly close…
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SIEM’s not Dead, It’s Only Disrupted
The old SIEM vision was “put everything in one hot pile and index the hell out of it and then run out of the box content over it so you can pivot from known to unknown questions smoothly”… which sounds lovely until you have to pay for it. In that…
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Sorting Alerts
Ah, the new year! February begins the new fiscal for many organizations, and it’s a fine time for resolutions and spring cleaning. You know, fun stuff like dumping recurring meetings, washing the windows, tech debt hackathons, or rearranging the living room. Here’s a fun spring cleaning activity to consider: review,…
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The Monthly Progress Meeting
Prioritizing hurts. It’s not just ordering a list, it’s picking the ideas that will live. But there’s a strange difference between doing it, and communicating it. Prioritize by yourself on a Saturday afternoon with a clear head. Communicate on Monday morning to questions and challenges from everyone involved. Then every…
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Where do Product Managers Come From?
Product management is a relatively recent discipline, young enough that the definition is still a bit shaky and we see occasional reactionary questions. (“What would you say you do here?” was directed at a PM after all.) When my PM career started the only formal training was Practical or SVPG;…
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