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CCNP Enterprise – Valid Through 2023

Posted on February 15, 2020 by bitcollector

Happy to say that I passed my CCNP re-certification after letting it expire in 2016. It felt good getting back in the lab and running through various routing and switching problems. I used EVE-NG to study with, it’s simply amazing … Continue reading →

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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Posted on December 20, 2019 by bitcollector

If you support systems @ scale than you must read the Google SRE book!  Do yourself and your team a favor by making sure you don’t repeat the mistakes in this book! This should be required reading for all managers … Continue reading →

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Delegated Credentials: Improving the security of TLS certificates

Posted on December 5, 2019 by bitcollector

This is worthy of a share if you are interested in TLS. Facebook, Cloudflare, and Mozilla are working together with the ITEF to develop a new protocol for handling the private keys for SSL certs. Facebook Engineering gives a great … Continue reading →

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Tutanota: Secure email, calendar and contact list

Posted on December 2, 2019 by bitcollector

Today I upgraded my email provider to Tutanota. They provide encrypted email hosted on servers in Germany. In addition to the encrypted inbox you can easily send end to end encrypted emails with users of other services like Gmail. Fellow … Continue reading →

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Site Back Online

Posted on November 25, 2019 by bitcollector

Website is back online after a small hiatus. I’m pretty sure my old wordpress instance had been hacked so I nuked the entire site and left it dormant for awhile. Now I’m starting to rebuild it to highlight some of … Continue reading →

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