Save up to 55% off on our new book for a short time
The Practice Of Cloud System Administration is featured in the InformIT Labor Day sale. Up to 55% off! Here is the link Buy 3 or more and save 55% on your purchase. Buy 2 and save 45%, or buy 1 and...
View ArticleTom speaking at LOPSA-NJ September meeting (near Princeton/Trenton)
I'll be the speaker at the September LOPSA-NJ meeting. My topic will be the more radical ideas in our new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration. This talk is (hopefully) useful whether you...
View ArticleTPOCSA Book Tour announcement!
I'm excited to announce my "book tour" to promote The Practice of Cloud System Administration, which starts shipping on Friday, September 5! I'll be speaking and/or doing book signings at the following...
View ArticleGood Reads, Aug 2014
(The book tour for The Practice of Cloud System Administration has begun! Book signings planned for NY, NJ, Philly, Austin, Denver, Seattle and The Netherlands. Parties planned for NYC on Sept 17 and...
View ArticleStack Exchange is hiring sysadmins (come work with me!)
The team I'm on at SE is hiring! In particular, we need a system administrator (either a Linux or Windows) that has Cisco network gear experience. Site Reliability Engineer, Networking We'll have...
View ArticleThe ebook is shipping!
The Practice of Cloud System Administration is shipping on Kindle and PDF/Mobi versions are shipping on InformIT. Physical book should start shipping today or Monday. If you get the PDF, I'd love to...
View ArticleNYC Book Launch Party for "The Practice of Cloud System Administration"
Stack Exchange, Inc. (stackoverflow.com / serverfault.com) is hosting the launch party for Tom Limoncelli's newest book, "The Practice of Cloud System Administration." The local DevOps/Sysadmin/Linux...
View ArticleConfigure Appigo Todo Cloud for use with The Cycle
In Time Management for System Administrators I describe a way to manage your todo lists which I call "The Cycle". The book came out before the existence of smart phones and app stores, so it doesn't...
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Why is TPOCSA called "Volume 2"?
...because we're re-branding The Practice of System and Network Administration as "Volume 1". Vol 1 == enterprise IT Vol 2 == server/service administration Available as a PDF here....
View ArticleSafari Books Online update
Previously Safari Books Online (the O'Reilly thing... not the Apple thing) had a rough draft of The Practice of Cloud System Administration. Now it has the final version:...
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Brewster Rockit explains network latency.
Sunday's "Brewster Rockit" comic strip explained bandwidth vs. latency better than I've ever seen is some text books: When I interview anyone for a technical position I always ask them to explain the...
View ArticleIn NYC for Velocity?
If you are in NYC for Velocity, please check out my tutorial on Monday, "Office Hours" on Tuesday, book signing on Wednesday, or come to my book party on Wednesday night! Tutorial: Mon, 3:30pm, Time...
View ArticleHow the internet has affected what books get published?
Someone recently asked me how the rise of the Internet has affected what books get published, specifically related to books about operating systems and other open source projects. This is based on what...
View ArticleI'll be at Philly Linux User Group tomorrow (Wednesday)
Hi Philly folks! I will be speaking at the Philadelphia area Linux Users' Group (PLUG) meeting on Wednesday night (Oct 1st). They meet at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP). My topic...
View ArticleApple's livesteam outage was easily preventable: here's how!
The live stream of Apple's announcement of the Apple Watch was marred by technical problems. Users saw messages about "could not load movie" and "you don't have permission to access". As we read Dan...
View ArticleTom on DevOps Cafe Podcast
I'm excited to announce that I'm interviewed on the new episode of DevOps Cafe. We talk about the history of system administration leading up to DevOps, recent changes, how the Usenix LISA conference...
View ArticleWhy women leave tech... because they have good taste
Fortune Magazine published an article called Why women leave tech: It's the culture, not because 'math is hard' TL;DR version: We treat them like shit and are surprised when they leave. So, basically...
View ArticleCleaning Up Stack Exchange's Puppet Environment
Shane Madden, a coworker of mine, recently re-engineered our Stack Exchange's Puppet environment. It is now full of win. Read about it here: http://shanemadden.net/stackexchange-puppet-cleanup.html
View ArticleTom speaking at NYC DevOps meetup Wednesday!
I'll be the speaker at the Wed, October 8th meeting of the NYCDEVOPS Meetup which meets (I kid you not) at the office of MeetUp, Inc. in New York City. I'll be talking about our new book, The Practice...
View ArticleI'm coming to Europe in November!
I'm honored to be a keynote at NLUUG's Autumn Conference, 20-Nov-2014, in The Netherlands. I don't get to Europe often, so this may be the last chance to see me there for a while. I'm also trying to...
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