{"id":11067,"date":"2023-11-07T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2023-11-06T18:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:15:31","slug":"random-short-take-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #89. I&#8217;ve been somewhat preoccupied with the day job and acquisitions. And the start of the NBA season. But Summer is almost here in the Antipodes. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Waite put out this article on how to deploy an <a href=\"https:\/\/kiwicloud.ninja\/?p=69123\">automated Cassandra metrics cluster for VCD<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Wahl wrote a great article on his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/wahlnetwork.com\/2023\/10\/05\/platform-engineering-is-product-design-at-scale\/\">platform engineering as product design at scale<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always found Chris to be a switched on chap, and his recent articles diving deeper into this topic have done nothing to change my mind.<\/li>\n<li>Curtis and I have spoken about this previously, and he talks some more about <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/tech-talk\/sulagna\/the-truth-behind-saas-data-recovery-with-w-curtis-preston\/\">the truth behind SaaS data recovery<\/a> over at Gestalt IT. The only criticism I have for Curtis is that he&#8217;s just as much Mr Recovery as he is Mr Backup and he should have trademarked that too.<\/li>\n<li>Would it be a Random Short Take without something from Chin-Fah? Probably not one worth reading. In <a href=\"http:\/\/storagegaga.com\/proxmox-storage-with-truenas-iscsi-volumes\/\">this article<\/a> he&#8217;s renovated his lab and documented the process of attaching TrueNAS iSCSI volumes to his Proxmox environment. I&#8217;m fortunate enough to not have had to do Linux iSCSI in some time, but it looks mildly easier than it used to be.<\/li>\n<li>Press releases? Here&#8217;s one for you: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerto.com\/press-releases\/zerto-research-report-finds-companies-lack-a-comprehensive-ransomware-strategy\/\">Zerto research report finds companies lack a comprehensive ransomware strategy<\/a>. Unlike the threat of World War 3 via nuclear strike in the eighties, ransomware is not a case of if, but when.<\/li>\n<li>Hungry for more press releases? <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/post_news\/datadobi-accelerates-channel-momentum-with-storagemap-the-premier-platform-for-unstructured-data-management\/\">Datadobi is accelerating its channel momentum with StorageMAP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In other PR news, Nyriad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyriad.io\/nyriad-unveils-storage-as-a-service-staas\/\">has unveiled its storage-as-a-service offering<\/a>. I had a chance to speak to them recently, and they are doing some very cool stuff &#8211; worth checking out.<\/li>\n<li>I hate all kinds of gambling, and I really hate sports gambling, and ads about it. And it drives me nuts when I see sports gambling ads in apps like NBA League Pass. So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/10\/31\/sbs_streaming_vice_ads_optout\/\">this news<\/a> over at El Reg about the SBS offering consumers the chance to opt out of those kinds of ads is fantastic news. It doesn&#8217;t fix the problem, but it&#8217;s a step in the right direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #89. I&#8217;ve been somewhat preoccupied with the day job and acquisitions. And the start of the NBA season. But Summer is almost here in the Antipodes. Let&#8217;s get random. Jon Waite put out this article on how to deploy an automated Cassandra metrics cluster for VCD. 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