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Your Friendly TOC Blogger Gets Real: Did You Spot My Master Plan?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 30, 2021

Have an open mind on this one . . . this post may not be…

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  • Containerization

I’m a Contributor Now: What I Learned from My First Public GitHub Pull Request (and What You Can Do With It)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 20, 2021October 19, 2021

I’ve made it. I can now say I have done a PR on github on…

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  • Cloud

Why VMware Engineers Tell You to Right-size Your VMs: Becau$e Co-$top Will Co$t You Money

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 6, 2021October 7, 2021

A Scenario: Ever wonder why we VMware Engineers always try to explain to you why,…

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  • Bryan's Take

A Plethora of Questions: The Value of Reverse Engineering (and a Primer)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 7, 2021September 5, 2021

This post has everything: Borg Assimilation Cubes, no less than 2 Alec Baldwin movie references,…

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  • Bryan's Take

Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection for Kubernetes, Part 1: What is It?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 29, 2021

In the interest of full disclosure, TOC-ers, I am getting paid for this blog post.…

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  • automation

The Fallacy of “Just Getting it Done”: Economics and the Use of Automation

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 6, 2021October 9, 2021

TL;DR Work smarter not harder by calculating opportunity costs. Yeah I know. Another opinion post.…

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  • automation

The Six Year Rule: Keeping Your Skills Relevant in a Sea of Technology

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 27, 2021February 27, 2021

I am not sure I have ever gone into detail about my career history so…

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  • automation

Dealing with Modern Distributed Systems: A Primer

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 19, 2021

A Very Brief Aside About Current Events It has been difficult for me to focus,…

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  • Bryan's Take

A Halloween Post About De-Siloing All the Things: “Be Not Afraid, Be Very Not Afraid”

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 31, 2020November 1, 2020

Happy Halloween! In this post we are talking about breaking through silos; a topic that…

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  • Bryan's Take

Dispatches from a Full Remote Veteran: Unpopular Opinions About WFH and How to Stay Sane If It’s Not Your Thing

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 18, 2020October 20, 2020

TL;DR – If you aren’t one for unpopular opinions and just want the advice part,…

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