When I was coming up in tech, one of the things that made enterprise products more accessible was the relative ease with which you could experiment with them in a home lab: Windows Server, ESX/ESXi, Linux: all of these platforms were very friendly to discovery on old desktops or
One of the most tedious parts of building a network map, to me, is working with NetBox. I'm not a network engineer by trade, and the assumptions, structure, primitives, and order of operations required to use NetBox effectively feel alien to me. No one is forcing me to
By March 2029, most enterprises will be renewing their TLS certificates every 47 days. For organizations that still treat certificate renewal as an annual chore, that shift will turn into a continuous operational crisis. In April of 2025, the CA/Browser Forum voted to change the acceptable lifetime of certificates