Bill Nye to Headline NECSS 2015
[This is not directly about system administration but it is of interest to many system administrators.] The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) announced that world-renowned science...
View ArticleJust announced: I'll be speaking at the BayLISA (Sunnyvale) meeting in March.
I don't get to California often so I'm excited to announce that I'll be the speaker at the March meeting of BayLISA. For more info check out their MeetUp page:...
View ArticleUsenix SREcon15: Now with more con!
Usenix has announced the schedule for the second SREcon and the big surprise is that it is now 2 days long. The previous SREcon was a single day. I wasn't able to attend last year's conference but I...
View ArticleBlackbox now available via "MacPorts"
My open source project BlackBox is now available in the MacPorts collection. If you use MacPorts, simply type "sudo port install vcs_blackbox". There was already a package called "blackbox" so I had to...
View ArticleBalitmore area folks: Come see me this Wednesday!
As previously blogged, if you are in the Baltimore area, check out the Baltimore LOPSA chapter meeting ("Crabby Admins") on Wednesday, March 4th when I'll be talking about my new book, The Practice of...
View ArticleHiring a network engineer for SRE team (NYC only)
Stack Exchange, Inc. is looking to hire a sysadmin/network admin/SRE/DevOps engineer that will focus on network-related projects. The position will work out of the NYC office, so you must be in NYC or...
View ArticleJust announced: I'll be speaking at the LSPE (Sunnyvale) meeting on Tuesday
I'll be talking about our new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration, at the SF/Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering, which meets at Yahoo! URL's Cafe in Sunnyvale, CA on Tue. Mar 17...
View ArticleSee you tonight at LSPE (Sunnyvale, CA)
See you at 6pm! The meeting is at Yahoo! URL's Cafeteria, 701 1st Ave, Sunnyvale, CA. Please RSVP. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/events/221111762/
View Article2015 DevOps Survey
Have you taken the 2015 DevOps survey? The data from this survey influences many industry executives and helps push them towards better IT processes (and removing the insanity we find in IT today). You...
View ArticleThe State of DevOps Report
Where does it come from? Have you read the 2014 State of DevOps report? The analysis is done by some of the world's best IT researchers and statisticians. Be included in the 2015 edition! A lot of the...
View ArticleUsenix LISA 2015 Call For Participation (3 weeks left!)
Only 3 weeks left to submit talk and paper proposals for LISA 2015. This year's conference is in Washington D.C. on November 8-13. This might be a good weekend to spend time writing your first draft!...
View ArticleThe Python Time Travel Debugger
Last year I open sourced my enhancement to Python PDB which lets you rewind time. Sadly I announced it on April Fools Day. Oddly enough, even though I open sourced it, people thought the screencast was...
View ArticleUsenix LISA has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years
I received an interesting email recently: Did the submissions process for LISA change in recent years? I recall going to submit a talk a couple years ago and being really put off by the requirements...
View ArticleI'll be at NYLUG next week, talking about the new book!
I'll be giving my talk "Radical ideas from The Practice of Cloud System Administration" talk at the NYLUG meeting next week, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 6:30 PM. If you haven't seen this talk at...
View ArticleNew tutorial at Cascadia IT Conference, March 13, Seattle
Registration is open for the Cascadia IT Conference 2015 in Seattle, WA on March 13-14, 2015. Cascadia is a regional conference, but people travel from all over to attend. Why? Because it is worth it....
View ArticleA tweet about Git
Best Tweet I've seen in months: git people trying to use hg: "WHY WON'T IT LET ME DO THIS" hg people trying to use git: "WHY DID IT LET ME DO THAT"— ❀❁ eevee ❁❀ (@eevee) April 14, 2015 That just about...
View ArticleBackupify: a case study in incompetent marketing
A year or so ago I tried Backupify and then disabled it shortly after. Ever since I've received many emails from them, mostly warning that my disabled account was... umm.. disabled. Thanks for the...
View ArticleTwo NYC-area Puppet-related events
There are still tickets available for Puppet Camp New York 2015, Friday, May 15, 2015. It is a day of presentations useful for folks from beginner to advanced. I'll be one of the speakers. In my talk...
View ArticleNote to Boeing 787 Dreamliner owners: Reboot every 248 days
If you own a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and I'm sure many of our readers do, you should reboot it every 248 days. In fact, more frequently than that because at about the 248-day mark, the power system will...
View ArticleDesign Patterns for being creepy: Playing The Odds
Recently a friend told me this story. She had given a presentation at a conference and soon after started receiving messages from a guy that wanted to talk more about the topic. He was very insistent...
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