Idiot Lights and Gauges

In his latest video, Steve Kubick first takes us back to the days he was a passenger in his father’s car. Perhaps it was due to Steve enjoying a sunny day in Colorado, but memories about those trips set the stage for an interesting perspective on problem resolutions. “I remember growing up as a kid and my father’s automobile dashboard was full of gauges. As I got older, we still had a few gauges and a few ‘Idiot lights.’  They weren’t actually an engine light, like we call them nowadays, they were an oil light or a fuel light.  They were called idiot lights because that’s what you felt like for not making sure the car had the proper fluids.”

Cars have never been all that reliable. Some may argue that today’s modern iterations are much worse than what was commonly available only a decade or so ago. Do you know where your oil’s dipstick is? Do you know if you even have one? “Nowadays, there are very few gauges on the dash,’ says Steve before adding, “you call AAA and get it towed into the shop to have the mechanic hook up a computer.”

At least AAA continues to be reliable and for those motorists that are members of AAA there’s a level of comfort derived from knowing that AAA can be called and that help will always arrive. But for enterprises that elect to move processes and data to the cloud, can the same be said about dependability and timeliness should a mishap occur? According to Steve, “Would the cloud service provider have been nearly as responsive?”

Turns out Steve had been involved in a post mortem following an issue at a customer site, not a down system mind you, but rather some issues over functionality. A post-mortem was indeed conducted but here’s the thing as far as Steve is concerned, “Would the cloud provider have spent the next couple of days on a post-mortem helping me to isolate where in my code the issue originated?”

To view the complete video and to hear more from Steve on the topic of cloud service providers possible responses, simply follow this link–

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-kubick-0463783_idiot-lights-and-gauges-activity-6786069874675367936-n8yh

And if you have as yet not connected with Steve on LinkedIn and would like to, then just follow this link –

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-kubick-0463783/

In his latest video, Steve Kubick first takes us back to the days he was a passenger in his father’s car. Perhaps it was due to Steve enjoying a sunny day in Colorado, but memories about those trips set the stage for an interesting perspective on problem resolutions. “I remember growing up as a kid and my father’s automobile dashboard was full of gauges. As I got older, we still had a few gauges and a few ‘Idiot lights.’  They weren’t actually an engine light, like we call them nowadays, they were an oil light or a fuel light.  They were called idiot lights because that’s what you felt like for not making sure the car had the proper fluids.”

Cars have never been all that reliable. Some may argue that today’s modern iterations are much worse than what was commonly available only a decade or so ago. Do you know where your oil’s dipstick is? Do you know if you even have one? “Nowadays, there are very few gauges on the dash,’ says Steve before adding, “you call AAA and get it towed into the shop to have the mechanic hook up a computer.”

At least AAA continues to be reliable and for those motorists that are members of AAA there’s a level of comfort derived from knowing that AAA can be called and that help will always arrive. But for enterprises that elect to move processes and data to the cloud, can the same be said about dependability and timeliness should a mishap occur? According to Steve, “Would the cloud service provider have been nearly as responsive?”

Turns out Steve had been involved in a post mortem following an issue at a customer site, not a down system mind you, but rather some issues over functionality. A post-mortem was indeed conducted but here’s the thing as far as Steve is concerned, “Would the cloud provider have spent the next couple of days on a post-mortem helping me to isolate where in my code the issue originated?”

To view the complete video and to hear more from Steve on the topic of cloud service providers possible responses, simply follow this link–

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-kubick-0463783_idiot-lights-and-gauges-activity-6786069874675367936-n8yh
And if you have as yet not connected with Steve on LinkedIn and would like to, then just follow this link –

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-kubick-0463783/