Recent talks of an economic softening have left IT leaders concerned about the future of their enterprises. That concern is understandable — tech layoffs create near-daily headlines at this point, with top companies rolling back their operations and rolling up their sleeves to focus on mission-critical expenses. And for many in ITOps, that means cutting tools.

If you are a new IT professional or manage a young team of IT staff, you know it too well how intimidating it is to be assigned to an on-call rotation for the first time. You might be asking yourself questions such as, “Will an outage or breach unfold? Will I sleep through an alert?

Everyone loves a good mystery thriller. Ok, not everyone – but Hollywood certainly does. Whether it’s Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, audiences clearly enjoy a page-turning plot of hunting down the culprit for some heinous crime.

How do you create a great engineering team? Exclusively hire brilliant, tenured computer science PhDs. There we solved it. You can skip the next 400 words. (I can hear my college professor in my head saying “Humor might not be your strong suit”) Building a great engineering team isn’t easy. Understatement of the year. It’s not even a problem to be solved per se. We need to think about it as preparation to solve an infinite set of constantly evolving problems.