IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday
I remember in the 1990s every vendor was saying, "whoa whoa whoa! You have to give us time to roll out silicon that will support this stuff!" and demanding 10 years before deployment. It takes a while...
View ArticleSHA-1 Deprecation: Pro, Con, or Extend?
I read Ryan's article about why SHA-1 should be deprecated faster and why we should veto the proposed extensions. It is an excellent explanation of what's going on. I highly recommend it (and look...
View ArticleNYC SRE Tech talks: A new monthly series
Google NYC has announced a series in monthly tech talks for the Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps community in New York City! The first meeting is January 20th at their Chelsea NYC office and will...
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BNF meets Bowie
This is floating around teh interwebz and I normally don't post this kind of thing, but since this blog recently discussed the death of Peter Naur, and since David Bowie passed away recently, I thought...
View ArticleNext on LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure
On the next episode of LISA Conversations... Our guest will be Alice Goldfuss. We'll be discussing her LISA '15 talk about growing a devops team: Scalable Meatfrastructure: Building Stable DevOps Teams...
View ArticleReminder: Next week's LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable...
This weekend is a good time to watch the video we'll be discussing on Usenix LISA conversations. Our guest will be Alice Goldfuss. We'll be discussing her LISA '15 talk about growing a devops team:...
View ArticleSHA-1 Certs should cost $10,000
In my previous blog post, "SHA-1 Deprecation: Pro, Con, or Extend?", I was a bit sarcastic about an anonymous company wanting to keep producing SHA-1 out of lazy greed rather than helping customers....
View ArticleWatch us live today: LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable...
NOTE: Due to illness, today's LISA Conversations is postponed. More info soon.
View ArticleWatch us live today: LISA Conversations: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable...
Today (Feb 2) at 3:30PM PST we'll be recording this month's episode of LISA Conversations. Our guest will be Alice Goldfuss. We'll be discussing her LISA '15 talk about growing a devops team: Scalable...
View ArticleLISA Conversations Episode 6: Alice Goldfuss on Scalable Meatfrastructure...
In this episode we talked with Alice Goldfuss about the changes you need to make when growing a DevOps or sysadmin team. Alice also talked about dealing with remote workers, her experience at film...
View ArticleACM Interviews: Thomas Limoncelli
I'm excited to announce that I've been interviewed as part of the ACM Interviews series. Listen to the 1-hour interview or read the summary via this link ACM Interviews are part of the ACM Learning...
View ArticleA feast of analogies
A few years ago a coworker noticed that all my analogies seemed to involve food. He asked if this was intentional. I explained to him that my analogies contain many unique layers, but if you pay...
View ArticleHow SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
I write a 3-times-a-year column in ACM Queue Magazine. This issue I cover 2 unrelated topics. "How Sysadmins Devalue Themselves" and "And how to track on-call coverage". Enjoy! Q: Dear Tom, How can I...
View ArticleWebCast on how to "Fail Better": Friday, Feb 26
I'll be giving a talk "Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing" as part of the ACM Learning Series at at 2pm EST on Friday, February 26, 2016. Pre-registration is required. In...
View ArticleNext on LISA Conversations: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future are...
Our next conversation will be with Kris Buytaert, who presented "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)" at LISA '11. Watch his talk beforehand, and then join us...
View ArticleTest post for people using RSS readers
We've made some changes to the website. If you read this blog via an RSS reader (or any "feed reader") posts should appear better now. In particular, the author of the post should show up better.
View ArticleReminder: WebCast on how to "Fail Better": TODAY (Friday, Feb 26)
I'll be giving a talk "Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing" as part of the ACM Learning Series at at 2pm EST on Friday, February 26, 2016. The webcast is free....
View ArticleHow does Google manage Oncall?
"Login", the Usenix Newsletter, has an excellent article about how Google manages oncall. Authors Andrea Spadaccini and Kavita Guliani did an excellent job of providing an overview of how Google seeks...
View ArticleTom Reacts to Teens React to Windows 95
We're in the process of updating The Practice of System and Network Administration (read the drafts here) and I discovered an old section that was written with the assumption that DHCP was newish and...
View ArticleHow to prepare for April Fools Day
Step 1. Buy this for your boss or coworkers. Step 2. Prepare for hijinks. #yourwelcome #dropthemic
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