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Jack's Rants - Floppy Disks at 35000 Feet - Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems
Season 1
The Boeing 747 is often cited online as proof that aviation still runs on floppy disks — but the reality is a bit more nuanced. In this Rant, we take…
6 hours ago
The Failover That Failed Successfully - Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test
Season 1 Episode 12
Conducted during a busy release weekend, the failover test exposed gaps not in the technology itself, but in coordination and communication. While pr…
2 weeks ago
Jack's Rants - IT Hiring Chaos – The Strange State of the Tech Job Market
Season 1
In this short episode, Jack takes a look at the current state of the IT hiring market — where job postings seem plentiful, but actual opportunities o…
1 month, 1 week ago
Raspberry Mistery - 200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed
Season 1 Episode 11
A few hundred field engineers. Real humans. With vans. And jobs. All coordinated by a device roughly the size of a coaster and powered by something s…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Jack's Rants - Batch Job Blues - Why Mainframes And Banks Still Rule The World
Season 1
Jack's Rants dives into the world of banking mainframes and the batch jobs that quietly keep everything moving — until one of them doesn't. What star…
2 months, 1 week ago
Surviving the Anonymous DDOS - How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous
Season 1 Episode 10
This episode we unpack what a DDoS attack actually is, using the specter of Anonymous as a cultural touchstone rather than a how-to villain. We talk …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Shadow IT Reports - Why you should not have a "Quick Sales Tool" in production
Season 1 Episode 9
We dive into the familiar chaos of Shadow IT created by the sales department — well-intentioned, fast-moving, and completely invisible until somethin…
3 months, 1 week ago
The DevOps Royale With Cheese - When a Data Supplier Breaks Production
Season 1 Episode 8
In this episode, we return to Finland, where an international burger chain suddenly found itself cut off from the one thing every fast-food operation…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Y2K vs Y2K38 - The Rematch and How the World Avoided a Global IT Disaster (Again)
Season 1 Episode 7
We revisit the original digital apocalypse — the year 2000 - looking back at what Y2K really was, how an army of COBOL coders saved the world before …
5 months, 2 weeks ago