Chevre, this week’s parsha is Bo (באֹּ). The parsha starts off with the 8th plague, Locusts. These beasts descend on a website like a DDOS and eat up all the crops, er system resources. Next was the plague of darkness. The Rambam explains this was like a fog that extinguished all flames. Going with the DDOS theme, the monitoring system didn’t have enough resources left and so operations was in the dark. And finally, we have the killing of the first born. The primary processes on the machines started to falter under the load they were pushed by the DDOS. And from the overload, the darkness and the failures, we learn how better to operate our systems (and get some help from Shield Advanced) and we exit the narrow country (Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzrayim, which means the narrows) and started headed toward the promised land, operational excellence. Just remember, a 40 year journey is ahead of us. And sometimes (usually?), we learn more from the journey than achieving our ultimate goal. Shabbat Shalom