DevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!
DevOpsdays NYC is happening March 3-4, 2020. The Call For Participation (CFP) is now open! If you have any ideas that you want to share with the local community please submit your talks using the link...
View ArticleGet your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!
DevOpsDays is about 2 weeks away! Commencing on Tuesday, March 3 and lasting for 2 days, this is the best NYC-area DevOps conference you can attend. The speaker lineup is very impressive (if I say so...
View ArticleCome work with me at Stack Overflow!
We're hiring! Come join my team at Stack Overflow, Inc. and help maintain one of the most visited websites on the internet! SREs with a Linux and web hosting focus (load balancers, Redis, web servers,...
View ArticleTime management for political sysadmins
Can you put me in contact with the "tech team" of a political campaign? I am offering my "time management for sysadmins" training pro-bono to any Dem or anti-Trump digital team, sysadmins, devops team,...
View ArticleBook: Become Ansible by Josh Duffney
My coworker Josh Duffney launches his self-published book on Ansible today! Congrats and I wish great success! Crawl, walk, run, sprint your way through learning Ansible with "Become Ansible"! Visit...
View ArticleAdarsh Shah on "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" (September...
Come one, come all! nycdevops does its first virtual meetup! All are invited! Speaker: Adarsh Shah Topic: "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" Time: Thursday, September 17, 2020, 5-630 PM Link:...
View ArticleOct 15 NYC DevOps Meetup: "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering" by...
This month's nycdevops meetup speaker is Nathen Harvey of Google, who will give a talk titled "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern) Please...
View ArticleThu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern)...
View ArticleThu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
Don't forget! November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in...
View ArticleWhat to give your loved one for April Fools Day?
April Fools Day is coming up! Time to order your coffee-table book of April Fools RFCs! More info here: https://www.rfchumor.com Makes a great gift for nerds that own coffee-tables! Order it today!
View ArticleUpdated BP Texas City Animation
This isn't directly sysadmin-related, but it made me think of how a really good outage retrospective can teach others how to prevent problems in the future. "On the 15th anniversary of the incident,...
View ArticleHear Tom on The Software Engineering Daily Podcast
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/07/22/stack-overflow-for-teams-a-centralized-knowledge-sharing-and-collaboration-platform-with-tom-limoncelli/ If you've ever googled a CS or programming...
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20 years of The Practice of System and Network Administration!
Twenty years ago the first edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration shipped! Since then there has been a 2nd and 3rd edition (2006 and 2014), plus a sequel book The Practice of...
View ArticleUsenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective.
The Usenix LISA conference is no more. After 35 years, I have a lot of good (and some not good) memories of the conference. It was a big part of my career and I'm sad to see it go. However I'm proud of...
View ArticleArticle: "Split Your Overwhelmed Teams"
After a 2-year break, my column in ACM Queue magazine returns! It has a new name "Operations and Life". For many years I wrote a column in ACM Queue Magazine. It was called "Everything Sysadmin" and...
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