Time Management training at SpiceWorld Austin, 2014
I'll be doing a time management class at SpiceWorld. Read about my talk and the conference at their website. If you register, use code "LIMONCELLI20" to save 20%. See you there!
View ArticleReddit AMA about LOPSA-East
Ask me and the entire planning committee anything. Thanks to everyone that participated. You can read the results at the link above.
View ArticleGetting the courage to do a lightning-talk (LOPSA-East)
LOPSA-East (and many conferences) have a session called "lightning-talks". This is where people do 5-minute talks. The talks range from technical to personal. It's invariably one of the most enjoyable...
View ArticleLOPSA-East: If you fly here, don't take the train.
The train station that is at Newark Airport is being repaired and is therefore shut down. The dates of this scheduled maintenance coincide exactly with the conference. Sigh. As a sysadmin, I appreciate...
View ArticleCisco: top of my list of "difficult to upgrade" things
Heartbleed has reminded me what equipment and products I deal with that are difficult to upgrade. While most people think of DevOps as "rapidly deploying software that your coworkers wrote", it is...
View ArticleGood Reads, April 2014
Heartbleed This month was really all about Heartbleed. A lot was written, but I'll highlight the 3 URLs worth reading. Heartbleed The site that broke the news to us all. What Heartbleed Can Teach The...
View ArticleSlides from LOPSA-East
I've uploaded my slides from "Top 5 Time Management Tips for SysAdmins" to SlideShare. They apply to developers too. Enjoy.
View ArticleCovered costs: $0. Your responsibility: $X billion.
You've probably seen this report: HealthCare.Gov Looks Like A Bargain Compared With State Exchanges. The Federal Healthcare Exchange was able to do the job much cheaper than the state-run exchanges....
View ArticleMice, Cheese, DevOps, and Job Satisfaction
You've probably seen experiments where a mouse gets cheese as a reward for pulling a lever. If he or she receives the cheese right away, the brain associates work (pulling the lever) with reward (the...
View ArticleMy 5-year prediction
I don't make many predictions. However I think two technologies are going to be huge within the next five years. DACs: I'm not saying Bitcoin will be big (though it could be), I'm saying that the...
View ArticleI'd like to buy an IP-KVM switch, please.
Hi! I'd like to buy an IP-KVM switch, please. "Sure! We got plenty." Now wait... I have some very specific requirements. "Shoot." First, I want it to connect via some kind of pod or something that I...
View ArticleTom @ LOPSA-East, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2-3, 2014
I'll be teaching tutorials. I'm also on the organizing committee. More info soon. Visit the conference site for details: http://lopsa-east.org
View Article"Ops All The Things" Podcast"
I'm the guest on this week's "Ops All The Things!" podcast. We talk about time management and all sorts of things. Check it out! http://www.opsallthethings.com/podcast/006-time-management
View ArticleProduct Idea: Real-time re-living the moon landing
I was only 7 months old when Neil Armstrong became the very first man to walk on the moon. I don't remember it very well. Today I was reminded that most of what we see of the moon landings are...
View ArticleComments on NIST Draft SP 800-160
[I emailed these comments to NIST last week. I've never read NIST standards documents before, so my response may be entirely naive, but since it is my tax dollars at work, I thought I'd put in my two...
View ArticleGood Reads, May 2014
A summary of the interesting articles I've found this month. What is Site Reliability Engineering? An interview with Ben Treynor (Google VP, Site Reliability Engineering) -- SRE isn't just a new name...
View ArticleHelp me explain our new book
Would you help us figure out how to explain our new book? A 30-question survey... only takes a minute.
View ArticleGoogle SRE University on the east-coast!
Usenix FCW '14 is in Philly June 17-20 and one of the tutorials is the highly rated SRE University--Practical Large System Design. It is taught by actual Google SREs. It is worth going to this...
View ArticleMoving the StackExchange/Serverfault NYC Datacenter
We moved our NYC datacenter to a new colo facility last month. We hired a moving company that specializes in moving racks of equipment. They did a great job. Here's a timelapse recording of them...
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