About this podcast
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith tells real stories from the world of IT: outages, failed migrations, broken infrastructure, cybersecurity incidents, software failures, networking disasters, cloud problems, Shadow IT, and the occasional decision that seemed like a good idea at the time. Jack Smith talks with the people who were there about what happened, how they got out of it, and what others can learn from the incident. Stories are anonymized where needed, and the focus is on technology,…
34 episodes · Technology
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
About this podcast
IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith tells real stories from the world of IT: outages, failed migrations, broken infrastructure, cybersecurity incidents, software failures, networking disasters, cloud problems, Shadow IT, and the occasional decision that seemed like a good idea at the time. Jack Smith talks with the people who were there about what happened, how they got out of it, and what others can learn from the incident. Stories are anonymized where needed, and the focus is on technology,…
Recent episodes
- Jack's Rants - Meshcore : Off-Grid Messaging, LoRa, Privacy, and Decentralised Networks5 Oct · 20 min
- Cultural Differences in IT : When Global Teams Don't Work the Same Way28 Sept · 21 min
- When UNPK Broke – Diagnosing an IBM Mainframe Hardware Failure21 Sept · 33 min
- Pinball as IoT : When Arcade Machines Go Online14 Sept · 38 min
- The Three Envelopes: Blame, Reorganize, Repeat7 Sept · 25 min
- Jack's Rants - Why You Need to Reboot : Why Rebooting Your Computer Actually Fixes Problems31 Aug · 9 min
- Testing Software Properly : Software Testing Done Right – Where, When and What Should You Test?24 Aug · 39 min
- Microcode Mayhem : How a Mainframe Timer Bug Slowed an Entire Development Team17 Aug · 25 min
- Jack's Rants - AI Is The New Shadow IT : Why Employees Are Quietly Building the Next IT Risk10 Aug · 12 min
- Melbourne Cup Meltdown : How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment3 Aug · 30 min
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