Quick Summary If you manage Windows Servers at any scale, from a signle server to many thousands, Cloud or n-Premises, you already know the feeling. Patch Tuesday rolls around. You patch your servers (or maybe you don’t because it’s too painful). They start updating. But somewhere in the middle of it all, a handful of…
The Scenario Recently, I built a web app to monitor a fleet of Windows Servers. These servers send telemetry and diagnostic information via a range of collection mechanisms into a DynamoDB instance hosted on AWS. On the frontend, I use this data to display actionable insights and performance metrics in real time. The app has…
Why Do We Care About Daylight Saving Time (DST)? In my role as a Systems Development Engineer, I work with on-premises servers (not virtual or Cloud based) all over the world managed from Amazon Web Services (The Cloud) and I have a daily requirement to calculate Daylight Saving Time (DST) to trigger jobs at the…
