Why does this blog exist? As you may know, I am working in IT-consultancy since the beginning of my professional career. In the beginning my tasks mainly consisted of delivery-projects - projects where I had to implement/deliver tasks, without much of a “consultancy”-aspect.
Over the years, both my field of activity and my professional interests have changed. Lately, I want to work more on the IT and software delivery process site of the industry....
Please stop starting automation initiatives
First of all, a small clarification. I am not against automation in itself.
Quite the contrary - I love to automate tasks and processes
Maybe because of this, I often get frustrated, when I see how automation projects are handled or planned. Today I want to lay down my own view and why I am at a point, that I often want to say “please don’t even start”.
The following paragraphs are a highly subjective view and only represent what I personally have seen or heard....
How I accidentally became a pen tester for one evening
A few weeks back I decided to add this blog to my homeserver setup, in order to have some kind of “brain dump” for topics that I think about. More on that, and why I decided to set up this blog in a later post.
One of the systems I wanted to add to the website was a solution to get a bit of insight on traffic and overall usage of it....