We had an awesome cruise in the Caribbean with my wife for the last 10 days. I am feeling very good and back in the swing of things. I missed my great colleagues, house, and cats. 1 st day back and we ended up seeing some odd packet loss around 6pm in our office. We ended up finding a couple of bad switches, and essentially rewired the whole office. It was a good time. We also put an order in for a couple of better Dell switches that support STP, management, and Spanning. These features are something we really wanted, but we had these crappy web managed Dell switches which cannot do much of anything. It was a fun 16 hour day yesterday, and thank you to Jamie for working so late with me to fix the problem. We still have 1 issue left to fix with the router -> firewall connection, but it should be done tonight late or tomorrow morning. We have a software push tonight to production systems, should go smoothly, but we keep risking not letting the code settle long enough before
Jonah Kowall is the VP of Market Development and Insights at AppDynamics, driving the company’s product roadmap and vision, entry into new markets and providing technology and business insights. Previously 15 years as a practitioner at several startups and larger enterprises focused on infrastructure and operations, security, and performance engineering. In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM).