Go-live weekends are stressful. Buying merch should not be.
From June 19 till June 21, our EU merch shop runs a 30% Go-Live Weekend Deal. Whether your deployment succeeds, rolls back, or becomes somebody else’s incident report — at least look prepared.
New episode: GDPR Enters the Chat.
A technical hiring exercise. An "anonymous" dataset. Information that wasn't supposed to be there.
What followed was less about recruitment and more about confidentiality, governance, and risk.
Reminder: our EU merch shop discount is still running — but like maintenance windows and temporary fixes, it won’t last forever.
20% off until June 8 on shirts, hoodies, and professionally approved outage attire.
Good news: our EU merch shop is running a 20% discount on June 1 to 8.
Bad news: buying a shirt will not improve uptime, reduce incident calls, or fix your printer queue. It may however improve your appearance during outages.
Throwback to Episode 5: Paris Rooftops.
Installing a 5G antenna sounds straightforward… until you’re doing it on a rooftop in the middle of downtown Paris. Add logistics, tight access windows, unexpected delays, and a healthy amount of “very French reasons,” and suddenly a simple infrastructure project becomes a story.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep05
#technology #Telecom #5G #Infrastructure #IT #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
Did you already listen to our latest episode "Sleep Mode in Production" ?
A warehouse suddenly stopped operating — not because of a cyberattack, but because a laptop entered sleep mode.
A known system solved a real business problem, made its way into production, skipped a few operational questions… and eventually became more critical than anyone expected.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep14
#technology #IT #ShadowIT #DevOps #Infrastructure #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
SAP support deadlines are getting closer, migration programs are accelerating, and suddenly everyone remembers that “we’ll deal with S/4HANA later” was not actually a long-term strategy.
If your organization is navigating the move to S/4HANA — or just trying to understand what all the noise is about — go back and listen to Episode 6: SAP Happens.
Listen now: https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep06
#technology #SAP #S4HANA #DigitalTransformation #ERP #Podcast #ITHorrorStories
New episode: Sleep Mode in Production.
A warehouse outage caused by a laptop entering sleep mode sounds ridiculous… until you realize it really can happen.
Shadow IT, missing operational checks, and “temporary” solutions reaching production.
Find all links to listen on our website : https://ithorrorstories.eu/#ep14
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/7LqbtykS0IQctSCucvQVHW
Apple Music : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith/id1812612272
YouTube : https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9A9yzpnkOdVQvmFjgTsZRrE-zDCuIVcX
Deezer : https://link.deezer.com/s/30dyH3RoKvN8N24zgsbhj
#technology #ShadowIT #DevOps #ITOperations #ITHorrorStories
We’re looking for guests for IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith.
Got a real IT incident story? Outage, failed deploy, security issue — the kind that still sticks with you?
We anonymize everything, and stories must be 18+ months old. It’s about learning, not blaming.
Details in the one-sheet.
Let’s turn your story into something useful.
#ITHorrorStories #CallForGuests #DevOps #SRE #TechCulture #Tech
“Boeing 747s still use floppy disks” — true, but not the whole story.
We dive into why some legacy aircraft systems still rely on them, and what that says about IT today: stability > hype.
You are one of us.
Listen: https://www.ithorrorstories.eu/#rants
#ITHorrorStories #Aviation #LegacyTech #FloppyDisk #TechCulture #Tech
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