Advice for people that teach system administration?
I've been asked to write an article that will be read by people that teach system administration (and people that research how to best teach system administration). Sadly I'm having writers block. I...
View ArticleFreeBSD Journal Reviews TPOSANA
Greg Lehey wrote an excellent review of The Practice of System and Network Administration in the new issue of The FreeBSD journal. Even though the book isn't FreeBSD-specific, I'm glad FJ was drawn to...
View ArticleCfP: USENIX Release Engineering Summit (URES '15)
Hey all you devops, CI/CD/CD people! Hey all you packagers, launchers, and shippers. Hey all your containers mavins and site reliability engineers! Submissions due: September 4, 2015 - 11:59 pm...
View ArticleCfP: USENIX Container Management Summit (UCMS '15)
The 2015 USENIX Container Management Summit (UCMS '15) will take place November 9, 2015, during LISA15 in Washington, D.C. Important Dates Submissions due: September 5, 2015, 11:59 p.m. PDT...
View ArticleReorganizing a wiki or documentation system
Someone wrote to me recently asking for advice about how to re-organize his company's documentation stash. Basically they had a directory on a fileserver that had become a free-for-all, collect...
View ArticleNew reviews of The Practice of Cloud System Administration
I hadn't realized that Google Play permits book reviews. Strata, Christine and I are very please to read these: Ivan Dimitrov wrote: Simplely the best book for system administrators and their managers....
View ArticleMr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up
After listening to Jon Taffer's interview on The Nerdist Podcast about "Bar Rescue", I'm convinced that I should do a TV show called "IT Rescue" where we visit an IT department that is failing hard and...
View ArticleNext week's LISA Conversations guest: Daniel V. Klein
We'll be recording Episode 3 of Usenix LISA Conversations on Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Our next conversation will be with Daniel V. Klein who presented "Making Push on Green a Reality" at LISA14....
View ArticleTV Alerts
Monday, Sept 21: Big Bang Theory (new season!) Tuesday, Sept 22: The Muppets (new show! OMG! OMG!) YOU'RE WELCOME!!! (the links point to Tivo's page to set up 1-step recording for that series)
View ArticleHomework for the weekend: Making Push on Green a Reality
Next week's "LISA Conversations" podcast will be a discussion about the LISA '14 talk "Making Push on Green a Reality". We'll be interviewing the presenter, Daniel V. Klein, about the talk and what he...
View ArticleInterview with Tom Limoncelli on InfoQ
infoq.com interviewed me for their website. We talk about DevOps, automation, and more. Interestingly enough, the person interviewing me was Barry Burd, a professor of mine 20 years ago. View it here:...
View ArticleCan't Make it to PuppetConf? Watch It Live!
I had an interesting conversation with Ryan Coleman, product manager at Puppet Labs. He gave me a preview of some of the things being announced soon and highlighted at PuppetConf next week. If you...
View ArticleBeyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
You're gonna want this book. Pre-order it now. http://bit.ly/beyondblame (Pre-orders are paper right now; it should be available on Kindle soon. Official release date is Oct 25) This is the best book...
View ArticleUsenix LISA: Early Bird Pricing ends Oct 15!
This year LISA is in Washington D.C., from Nov 8-13. If you are on the east-coast, this is a good opportunity to attend the premiere system administration conference. Register now. This year's schedule...
View ArticleBig discount, 24 hours only!
The Practice of Cloud System Administration is the InformIT "eBook Deal of the Day". You can get it with more than a 40% discount: $24.99. http://informit.com/deals Offer expires October 19th at 11:59...
View ArticleGet ready for LISA Conversations Episode 4: Sabrina Farmer
The next episode of the LISA Conversations video podcast will be a discussion with Sabrina Farmer. We'll be discussing her amazing talk "Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself" from the 2012 USENIX...
View ArticleNEW: USENIX Journal of Education in System Administration
If you teach system administration I highly recommend you take a look at USENIX's newest journal: Journal of Education in System Administration (JESA) The journal can be read (for free) online:...
View ArticleNew column in Queue Magazine: Everything Sysadmin
I've started a column in ACM Queue magazine called "Everything Sysadmin" (guess where I got the idea for the name?). It will appear 3 times a year. The first column is titled, "Automation Should Be...
View ArticleWatch us live today: LISA Conversations Episode 4: Sabrina Farmer
Today (Oct 27, 2015) we'll be recording Episode 4 of LISA Conversations. Join the Google Hangout and submit questions live. Our guest will be Sabrina Farmer, who is a SRE manager at Google. We'll be...
View ArticleWatch LISA Conversations Episode 4: Sabrina Farmer!
The Google Hangout with Sabrina Farmer was so amazing we decided to go over-time. If you missed it, watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgvBZszuwI. We discussed her talk from WiAC '12...
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