Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern)...
View ArticleThu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
Don't forget! November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents". The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in...
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View ArticleUpdated BP Texas City Animation
This isn't directly sysadmin-related, but it made me think of how a really good outage retrospective can teach others how to prevent problems in the future. "On the 15th anniversary of the incident,...
View ArticleHear Tom on The Software Engineering Daily Podcast
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/07/22/stack-overflow-for-teams-a-centralized-knowledge-sharing-and-collaboration-platform-with-tom-limoncelli/ If you've ever googled a CS or programming...
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20 years of The Practice of System and Network Administration!
Twenty years ago the first edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration shipped! Since then there has been a 2nd and 3rd edition (2006 and 2014), plus a sequel book The Practice of...
View ArticleUsenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective.
The Usenix LISA conference is no more. After 35 years, I have a lot of good (and some not good) memories of the conference. It was a big part of my career and I'm sad to see it go. However I'm proud of...
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After a 2-year break, my column in ACM Queue magazine returns! It has a new name "Operations and Life". For many years I wrote a column in ACM Queue Magazine. It was called "Everything Sysadmin" and...
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