Interested in doing a lightning talk at LISA?
Talks are no more than 5 minutes with no AV (no slides, no videos, no projector). They can be on any topic though we prefer topics related to System Administration. Please keep the content...
View ArticleUsenix LISA schedule updated
The schedule of Usenix LISA sessions has been updated with icons that represents categories: DevOps, Cloud System Administration, Coding, Linux, Soft Skills and Women in Advanced Computing. Check it out.
View ArticleThis site now available via IPv6
My hosting company has enrolled this site in their beta for IPv6. All I had to do was ask. If you have a hosted site, I highly recommend that you open a ticket asking for your site to be available via...
View ArticleGreetings SpiceWorld 2013 Attendees!
Thanks for coming to SpiceWorld and attending my session! I'll have the slides up on this site totomorrow. If you aren't here at the conference you can sign up for the livestream here:...
View ArticleImproved cycle time? What about this technique from the 1990s?
One of the DevOps goals you often hear about is "improved cycle time" for releases. What that means, basically, is speeding up the time from when a developer writes a line of code to when it is in...
View ArticleIs Cisco finally understanding that SDN is real?
I've been talking about SDN and OpenFlow for a while. It is slowly becoming a reality. This article is one of the warning signs: Here's What Happened When Cisco Lost A $1 Billion Deal With Amazon Let...
View ArticleHospitals are the Mainframe of the medical industry
Hospitals are the mainframe of the medical industry. Computers used to be rare and expensive. Every bit, every CPU cycle needed to be carefully groomed, petted, and softly whispered sweet things to,...
View Article"Evil Genius 101" class via livestream
If you can't make it to LISA this year but want to see my devops-tastic, "Evil Genius 101" class, you can buy the livestream:...
View ArticleOpen office hours at LISA
This just in... I'll be having office hours on Thursday from 2-3:30pm at LISA. Stop by for one-on-one time management counseling. It isn't listed yet on the website but will be soon:...
View ArticleHow to provide infinite disk storage
A user recently asked for a lot of disk space. Not just a lot of disk space, but growing at an astounding rate per month. (Not big for some places, but bigger than my current employer was used to...
View ArticleSummary of "Evil Genius 101" Tutorial
Ben Cotton wrote up a summary of my Evil Genius 101 tutorial: https://www.usenix.org/blog/evil-genius-101 Thanks for the great summary, Ben! (Ben Blogs at FunnelFiasco)
View ArticleStop monitoring whether or not your service is up!
99 percent of all monitoring that I see being done is done wrong. Most people think of monitoring like this: Step 1: Something goes down. Step 2: I am alerted. Step 3: I fix the problem as fast as I...
View ArticleDeadline for Cascadia IT talk proposals extended to Dec 9:
The proposal deadline for LOPSA's Cascadia IT conference has been extended to 9 DEC. http://casitconf.org/casitconf14/call-for-proposals/
View ArticleTomorrow is Giving Tuesday: Here are the organizations I support (and you...
You know Black Friday and Cyber Monday... did you know that tomorrow (Dec 3) is "Giving Tuesday"? Many charities receive most of their donations in December as people rush to donate before the tax year...
View ArticleLOPSA-East 2014: Call for Participation
[forwarded from Evan Pettrey, this year's LOPSA-East chair] Greetings! LOPSA-East is pleased to announce that we have released our Call for Participation for our 2014 conference. Everybody with a...
View ArticleAsk Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do?
I'm really sick and tired of Slashdot doing posts like this, but it isn't slashdots fault. It's our industry's fault. Here's the question: "I am a senior engineer and software architect at a fortune...
View ArticleToday I applied to get my LOPSA LPR
https://lopsa.org/LPR You should too. The LOPSA Professional Recognition Program (LPR) is not a certification. It is a recognition that the person in question met or exceeded the standards for...
View ArticleHow does Bitcoin work?
A brilliant description. It's certainly the best explanation I've ever seen. For the first time I actually understood how it works.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE
View ArticleAvoiding the "cost center" mentality.
CIO Magazine 2013 State of the CIO Survey lists five stages of an IT organization from a business stakeholders' view: Cost center Service Provider IT Partner Business Peer Business Game Changer I don't...
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