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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 4

Posted on October 2, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

One more piece of context must be added to the discussion I’ve written up here, here, and here, and that is the place of these operations in the 7-layer OSI communications model. The image above is copied from and linked … Continue reading →

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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 3

Posted on August 22, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

Now that we’ve described how to sense error states and something about how to record logging information on systems running multiple processes, we’ll go into some deeper aspects of these activities. We’ll first discuss storing information so errors can be … Continue reading →

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Pittsburgh IIBA Meetup: Do You Think You Are a Good Listener? Let Us Surprise You!

Posted on May 14, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

This evening’s talk at the Pittsburgh IIBA Meetup was about communication skills. Although there was some discussion about conveying messages the emphasis was on how to receive them. Both are important to business analysts. BAs must provide context for what … Continue reading →

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Who’s the Boss?

Posted on December 6, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

An interesting subject came up at the post-presentation hangout of this evening’s CharmCityJS Meetup. I was talking with a fellow attendee about the fact that I’d rather be an analyst, requirements engineer, and architect than a full-time coder (not that … Continue reading →

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