Archive

Category Archives for "Packet Pushers Podcast"

Heavy Networking 636: Mindfulness And IT Leadership

Today on Heavy Networking we’re talking about mindfulness in the workplace. Mindfulness, which is about being aware of your senses and feelings in the moment, could be a useful tool to help you navigate the high-stress, high-stakes IT profession. Our guest is Jennifer “JJ” Minella. She’s an IT practitioner, network architect, author, and the founder and principal advisor of Viszen Security.

The post Heavy Networking 636: Mindfulness And IT Leadership appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Heavy Networking 636: Mindfulness And IT Leadership

Today on Heavy Networking we’re talking about mindfulness in the workplace. Mindfulness, which is about being aware of your senses and feelings in the moment, could be a useful tool to help you navigate the high-stress, high-stakes IT profession. Our guest is Jennifer “JJ” Minella. She’s an IT practitioner, network architect, author, and the founder and principal advisor of Viszen Security.

Put In The Work

Would you like to stand out from your peers? Would you like to impress the people you work for, or perhaps the people you’d like to work for? Put in the work. Putting in the work to achieve a goal is a form of self-sacrifice. To get the thing you want, you need to give up something else.

The post Put In The Work appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Join The Packet Pushers For A Live Stream With Gluware June 28, 2022

We're hosting the "Real World Enterprise Automation" live stream with sponsor Gluware on June 28, 2022. Gluware is a network automation vendor that's especially good at taking your existing, multi-vendor network and adding automation to it. We'd like it if you'd register to attend this hour-or-so event in real-time via https://packetpushers.net/live. Thanks!

The post Join The Packet Pushers For A Live Stream With Gluware June 28, 2022 appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Kubernetes Unpacked 003: Beginner Lab Environments For Learning Kubernetes

Today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast explores entry-level lab environments for IT professionals interested in learning Kubernetes, including suggestions for simple container-based apps you can run to get familiar with Kubernetes essentials.

The post Kubernetes Unpacked 003: Beginner Lab Environments For Learning Kubernetes appeared first on Packet Pushers.

How To Reference Nested Python Lists & Dictionaries

This post originally appeared in the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on March 10, 2020. When getting data back from API queries in Python, the data is often delivered in JSON format. Python libraries such as requests will convert that JSON data structure into a Python-native data structure you can work with. That Python data structure […]

The post How To Reference Nested Python Lists & Dictionaries appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Day Two Cloud 152: How To Right-Size Access With strongDM (Sponsored)

Welcome to Day Two Cloud. In this episode we take on the problem of over-provisioning access to resources. Sponsor strongDM joins the conversation to share how to properly manage roles and access in our IT systems, focusing heavily on the process of discovery. Who has access to what, and why do they have that access? Our guest from strongDM is Britt Crawford, Director of Product.

Embedding Client IP In DNS Requests: EDNS Client Subnet (ECS)

This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on December 10, 2019.   DNS is sometimes used to optimize traffic between client and server. That is, a client needs to connect to a server. Resolving the IP address of the server’s hostname is the first thing the client must do before making the […]

The post Embedding Client IP In DNS Requests: EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Your First REST API Call In Python

This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on June 10, 2020. Introduction In many automation scripts, you’ll be retrieving information via some sort of interface and then doing something with the data. The interface is often an API–application programmatic interface. For folks new to APIs, they might seem daunting, but they need […]

The post Your First REST API Call In Python appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Using OpenSSL With Ed Harmoush 6/6 Troubleshooting: Client Side Certificate Issues – Video

ED, HIS TLS COURSE, AND THE FREE OPENSSL CHEATSHEET Twitter @ed_pracnet https://practicalnetworking.net Practical TLS course: https://pracnet.net/tls OpenSSL Cheatsheet: https://pracnet.net/openssl FILES FOR THE CERT/KEY MATCHING EXERCISE: ZIP VERSION: packetpushers-pracnet-openssl.zip https://ln5.sync.com/dl/1f1f63d90/kqztwkp9-hkcz3yvq-tuzx79ke-aewxgaip TAR.GZ VERSION: packetpushers-pracnet-openssl.tar.gz https://ln5.sync.com/dl/0791b8d50/q973jpyb-qrmz3cpd-xeiar9zn-qu99gi5w FOR MORE INFO Hashing, Hashing Algorithms, and Collisions – Cryptography Symmetric Encryption vs Asymmetric Encryption Public & Private Keys – Signatures & […]

The post Using OpenSSL With Ed Harmoush 6/6 Troubleshooting: Client Side Certificate Issues – Video appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Lost Connections In The Connected Workplace

This post originally appeared in the Human Infrastructure newsletter, a free weekly publication from the Packet Pushers. See back issues and sign up at packetpushers.net/newsletter. As months of work-from-home policies became years, I noticed a pattern in some coworkers and friends (and myself): The longer folks worked from their domestic silos, the more mistrust and […]

The post Lost Connections In The Connected Workplace appeared first on Packet Pushers.

1 … 67 68 69 70 71 … 260