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View ArticleOperational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
This issue's column in ACMQueue Magazine is titled, "Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks". You can read it on the Queue app: http://queue.acm.org/app/
View ArticleNovember NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a hybrid cloud
Taras Lipatov, Principal Engineer at Sailthru, will describe his experience building a hybrid cloud using docker/mesos/consul at the Tuesday, November 14, 2017 nycdevops meetup. More info and to RSVP...
View ArticleProductivity When You Just Can't Even
Ryn Daniels has written an excellent piece about time management and productivity when you are burned out. The advice is spot on. I also do these things when I'm not feeling my best too. "It's one...
View ArticleQuick! Install that Mac printer now!
Does your friend or significant other have a Mac from work that is locked down so that changes can't be made? Any attempt to make a chance in System Preferences asks for the admin password, which you...
View ArticleDevOpsDays New York City 2018 Speakers Announced!
Exciting news from the D-O-D-NYC committee! Speakers announced. Wow! I've never seen such an amazing lineup of speakers! The best of the best. The committee this year was flooded with so many amazing...
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Save 40-60% on the 3rd edition of TPOSANA
The 3rd edition of "Vol 1: The Practice of System and Network Administration" was nominated as a "2017 Community Favorite". To celebrate, you can get it 40-60% off between now and Jan 8, 2018. Click...
View ArticleDevOpsDays New York City 2018: Register now!
DevOpsDays NYC is only a few weeks away: Jan 18-19, 2018! Please register asap. We could sell out this year. With this awesome line-up of speakers, tickets are going fast....
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Male Ally Summit 2018 (NYC)
(quoted from the website) The Male Ally Summit comes after a successful event on March 13, 2017 in NYC called, "The Role Male Allies, Advocates, and Mentors have in Retaining Women in Tech", we had...
View ArticleDevOpsDays New York City 2019: Join the planning committee!
2019 feels like a long way off, but since the conference is in January, we need to start planning soon. The sooner we start, the less rushed the planning can be. I have to confess that working with the...
View ArticleZFS Users Conference, April 19-20, Norwalk, CT
Datto will be hosting the 2nd annual ZFS User Conference featuring ZFS co-creator, Matt Ahrens! The date is April 19-20 at Datto HQ in Norwalk, CT. This conference will focus on the deployment,...
View ArticleAccelerate NYC Launch Party, Saturday, April 21
The NYC launch event for Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim will be...
View ArticleSRECon: Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
The video of my SRECon talk is finally available! "Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks: Being Funny Is Serious Work!" at SREcon18 Americas is about mitigating the risk of "high stakes"...
View ArticleLaunched: Stack Overflow for Teams!
I usually don't use my blog to plug my employer but I'm very excited about Stack Overflow's new "Stack Overflow for Teams" launch this week. How would you like a private Stack Overflow area for your...
View ArticleSO (my employer) is hiring a Windows SRE/sysadmin in NY/NJ
Come work with Stack Overflow's SRE team! We're looking for a Windows system administrator / SRE to join our SRE team at Stack Overflow. (The downside is that I'll be your manager... ha ha ha)....
View ArticleI'm hiring SREs/sysadmins and more!
My team at Stack Overflow has a number of open positions on the team that I manage: Windows-focused SRE, New York City or Northern NJ: If you love PowerShell, you'll love this position! If your...
View ArticleGoogle has changed GSuite's SPF records
(DNSControl unrolls your SPF records safely and automatically. Sure, you can do it manually, but at the end of this article I'll show you how to automate it so you can 'set it and forget it'.) Google...
View Article"Continuous Discussion" Video Podcast today!
The next episode of the "Continuous Discussion" video podcast will include a panel discussion about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas this October. I'll be on the panel. Watch the...
View ArticleStack Overflow in NYC is hiring Windows SREs
Are you a Windows Server sysadmin? Love PowerShell? Have experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration? Looking to step up to an SRE position at a website all your friends love? Apply to work...
View ArticleFinancial advice when you get a raise
[This is a "first draft". Comments appreciated.] One of the best pieces of financial advice I ever got was to pretend you didn't get a raise, and send the increment to your retirement or long-term...
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