Every cloud evangelist has their talking points. Some worship AWS like it is the promised land. Others treat Azure as the inevitable choice of big business and government. But for those of us who have traced packets, rebuilt VLANs in the dark, and prayed through failed routes at 2 a.m., this debate is not about branding. It is about control,
Tag: network engineer
I’ve always dreamed of working for Microsoft. In high school back in the Philippines, I imagined myself as a software engineer—writing code, building tools, and maybe even contributing to Windows itself. But unlike some of my classmates, I didn’t have my own PC. Instead, I lived in the school computer lab. My only access to technology was through shared lab
Now, please hold while I patch your router, block that ransomware, and stop Gerry from downloading malware. Again. Oh, you think being a network and cybersecurity engineer is cool? Glamorous, even? You imagine dark rooms lit by cascading lines of code, high-fiving your team after foiling international hackers, and maybe a dramatic “We’re in!” moment every other Tuesday? Yeah, that’s