Leon Adato

I've worked as an actor, exterminator, electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, American Sign Language interpreter, and Sunday school teacher. Oh, and I work with computers, too.

Cleveland, Ohio Joined on Mar 14, 2022 leon@adatosystems.com https://www.adatosystems.com

Education

New York Univeristy

Pronouns

he/him

Work

Principal Technical Evangelist at Kentik

New Relic

Kentik

Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS, Bash, Linux
but also "geek", ASL, Spanish, and French

Python, Go, Java, Spanish, French, Hebrew

Writing. So much writing.

68 posts published

5 comments written

9 tags followed

Leon Adato

Oct 8

Time Data Series: The Rest of the Story

#php #zmanim

7 min read

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Leon Adato

Sep 30

Hiring Superstitions: Things that aren’t a thing

#career #jobsearch

7 min read

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Sep 16

ACTING (like we care about) Security

#security

6 min read

Leon Adato

Sep 11

Starting to Care About Security

#security

5 min read

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Sep 9

Nobody Cares About Security

#security #devops

5 min read

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Sep 2

NMS Migration Made Easy: Lessons Learned

5 min read

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Aug 26

Respect Your Youngers

#career #mentorship #troubleshooting

6 min read

Leon Adato

Aug 26

NMS Migration Made Easy: Moving Foward with Kentik NMS

#monitoring #observability #kentik #migration

7 min read

Leon Adato

Aug 19

NMS Migration Made Easy: Get Stakeholders Aligned

#monitoring #observability #kentik #migration

8 min read

Leon Adato

Aug 12

NMS Migration Made Easy: Gathering Information

#monitoring #observability #kentik #migration

13 min read

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Aug 5

Network Observability: Beyond Metrics and Logs

#monitoring #observability #networking #kentik

8 min read

Leon Adato

Jul 29

Exploring NetFlow with Kentik: A Simple Explainer

#monitoring #observability #netflow #kentik

6 min read

Leon Adato

Jul 22

Calm Down, Cloud's Not THAT Different!

#cloud #networking #career #kentik

10 min read

Leon Adato

Apr 18

Time Data Series: Working with PHP Zmanim

#time #php #judaism

7 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Apr 12

The (Mostly) Complete Guide to Installing Kentik NMS

#monitoring #kentik #networking #observability

14 min read

Leon Adato

Apr 11

Time Data Series: Getting Started with PHP Zmanim

#php #time #zmanim #jewish

10 min read

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Apr 4

What’s a Resume FOR?

#job #career

6 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Apr 2

Adjusting Data Before Sending it to Kentik NMS

#snmp #kentik #networking #monitoring

7 min read

Leon Adato

Mar 28

“Do You Have Any Questions for Me?”

#job #career

5 min read

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Mar 21

Remember When Things Were Better? (No.)

#job #career

2 min read

Leon Adato

Mar 14

Culture, Community, Creation, Calling

#job #career

3 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Mar 13

Getting to Work with Kentik NMS

#monitoring #observability #snmp #networking

8 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Mar 7

Getting Started with Kentik NMS

#networking #monitoring #observability #snmp

6 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Mar 7

How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics

#snmp #monitoring #networking #kentik

12 min read

Leon Adato

Mar 7

Job Descriptions and Other Works of Fiction

#job #career

2 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Mar 4

Setting Sail with Kentik NMS: Unified Network Telemetry

#monitoring #observability #networking

4 min read

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Mar 1

Who Says “no” in a Job Search?

#jobs #career #interview

1 min read

Leon Adato

Jan 1

Setting Up a WordPress Test Environment With wp-env

#wordpress #plugin #wpenv #testing

6 min read

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Dec 12 '23

What I Learned About Salary Negotiation from Kym Possible

5 min read

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Dec 5 '23

Writing your first "Hello ~World~ Product" script using the WooCommerce API

#wordpress #woocommerce #api

7 min read

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Nov 28 '23

Sometimes it IS who you know

#job #career

5 min read

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Nov 20 '23

Should I start my job search now?

#career #job

3 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Nov 15 '23

Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around

#monitoring #observability #alerts

5 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Nov 13 '23

Lessons From a Six-Month Job Search

#career #job

5 min read

Leon Adato

Nov 2 '23

The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023

5 min read

Leon Adato for Kentik

Oct 30 '23

Visibly Kentik

#kentik #community #jobs

4 min read

Leon Adato

Oct 11 '23

Safe at Home, or Left Behind?

#layoffs #career #jobs

4 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Aug 1 '23

Unlock observability power-ups using New Relic’s Python agent API

#python #api #games

13 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Jul 28 '23

Rational Shift-Left Security for Developers

#shiftleft #security #vulnerability #coding

7 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Jun 21 '23

How to overcome data silos in open source server monitoring

#nagios #zabbix #prometheus #integrations

13 min read

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Jun 8 '23

Making the leap from old-school monitoring to modern o11y

7 min read

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Jun 6 '23

As Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler

#apm #simplicity #demos

3 min read

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May 30 '23

Driving isn’t like riding; Building isn’t like using

#coding #learning #career

4 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

May 25 '23

What ChatGPT Needs is Context

#aiops #chatgpt #history

4 min read

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Mar 21 '23

Something ChatGPT is good for?

#ai #chatgpt #writing #javascript

4 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Mar 16 '23

Pretty data all in neat rows

#monitoring #flex #observability #pihole

5 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Mar 9 '23

Mind the Gap

#monitoring #observability #nrflex #pihole

6 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Mar 1 '23

Your Pi-Hole is a rich source of data

#pihole #monitoring #observability #json

3 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Feb 13 '23

o11y Day Miami: MELT* in the Sun

#monitoring #observability #miami #newrelic

3 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Jan 10 '23

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 2)

#career #beginners #tolkien

8 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Jan 3 '23

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from Tolkien (part 1)

#career #beginners #tolkien

7 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Dec 27 '22

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from "The Rings of Power" (part 4)

#career #beginners #tolkien

5 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Dec 20 '22

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from "The Rings of Power" (part 3)

#career #beginners #tolkien

5 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Dec 15 '22

Creating Crap Faster Isn’t an Improvement

#ai #chatgpt #writing #marketing

5 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Dec 13 '22

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from "The Rings of Power" (part 2)

#career #beginners #tolkien

5 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Dec 6 '22

Everything I needed to know about a career in tech, I learned from "The Rings of Power" (part 1)

#career #tolkien #beginners

3 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Nov 14 '22

"Managing Up" in a digital age

#career #philosophy #teamwor

6 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Sep 21 '22

How to convince your boss to prioritize observability

#monitoring #observability

7 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Aug 23 '22

Monitoring multiple network devices

#networking #monitoring #observability

7 min read

Leon Adato for New Relic

Aug 17 '22

Dev.to: Absolutely Simple Network Monitoring

#network #monitoring #observability #router

8 min read

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