Sorry for the huge silence

Sorry for the huge silence all.
As some of you may recall, the entire Redmond location that I was at with Citrix was let go.  RIF'd we call it.
After that I landed at F5 in Seattle.

The work at F5 was a pretty wild and constantly fast ride.
With the acquisition of NGINX by F5, I became part of the NGINX business.

That covers over 18 months in about as lightly as I can.

What you will find from me going forward is automation.  Probably interesting to DevOps and SRE types more so than what I used to write about.
And probably a lot more Linux than Windows.

I talk to customers a lot more than I used to. 
What I find interesting, is that the problems in IT that I was dealing with 20 years ago are still present in the industry today.
Yes, the tools have changed, the scope has changed, and the impacts have changed - but many of the problems still remain. 
It is just something that I find really interesting.

Part of me finds it disturbing as well.  Specifically that the core problems remain, but shift and change ever so slightly, but they are still present.
Is it that tools have come and gone?
The problems are solved, then the tools get re-written and they just surface again?
Is it that IT changes and keeps bringing everything back around with each generation?

Or, it is just that folks shift from one infrastructure to another and all that baggage just comes along for the ride?  To the new, not fully complete new platform.....
I speculate the latter more than not.

Anyway.  Back at it.  Hopefully posting things that are useful to the community, and hoping to gather some insights as well.