When DNS Says: Talk to the Hand! What? This started with a post on social media, which created a discussion among us industry professionals. The following conversation happened when I got to talk to my coworkers about some interesting things regarding DNS responses. Putting us gearheads in a room always results in an interesting comment or two!

While “America runs on Dunkin”, IT increasingly runs on Linux. Between being open-source and highly customizable, everything from video games to enterprise servers can run on Linux. When cloud services took over the corporate IT environment, they brought Linux with them in the form of virtual servers and containers. Meanwhile, developers increasingly use Linux-based Docker to containerize applications and Kubernetes to manage the deployments.

Imagine living in a world without caller ID, which is easy if you grew up in the “late 1900s.” Every time someone called, you had a conversation that followed this pattern: Hi! Who’s this? It’s Jeff! Hi Jeff! How’s it going? Today, most people already know who’s calling when they answer the phone because caller ID is built into smartphones and communications apps. As a developer, your Python logging is your application’s caller ID.