You Should Automate Something This Year

Need a push to start learning network automation?

January 9, 2018 · 6 min · 1149 words · Matt Schmitz

One Year Later

Some thoughts on the past year, and goals for the year to come

January 2, 2018 · 4 min · 737 words · Matt Schmitz

How to Improve: Stop Doing, Start Understanding

The best way to truly understand a technology is to dig deeper than surface-level configurations

November 28, 2017 · 6 min · 1158 words · Matt Schmitz

What's Going Out of Your Network?

Ever consider enabling firewall filtering for outgoing traffic from your network? Let’s look at why that could be interesting…

November 21, 2017 · 4 min · 789 words · Matt Schmitz

Review: Amazon LightSail

My experience with hosting this blog on Amazon Lightsail

October 17, 2017 · 6 min · 1255 words · Matt Schmitz

Devil in the Defaults

It’s always the simple details that come back to haunt us…

October 3, 2017 · 5 min · 999 words · Matt Schmitz

Ten years of Cisco Certification

It’s hard to belive I started my networking career ten years ago.. How quickly time flies!

August 29, 2017 · 3 min · 527 words · Matt Schmitz

How to Write a Better IT Resume

I’ve been given a lot of resume tips over the years - so I wanted to share the ones I’ve found most helpful

June 21, 2017 · 8 min · 1686 words · Matt Schmitz

Alright - Now What?

I finally finished college, so what’s next for my professional goals?

May 11, 2017 · 3 min · 502 words · Matt Schmitz

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How to Prove It's Not the Network

IT’S THE NETWORK! - Sound familiar? Let’s take a quick look at how we can counter that blame

April 11, 2017 · 4 min · 794 words · Matt Schmitz