I don’t generally buy programming books, but “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” is one of the rare exceptions. It’s available for free in this link https://automatetheboringstuff.com/, but I made the purchase because it’s the type of reference book that will be so useful for me that I’ll continue to reference it over and over […]
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A comprehensive guide to IT-documentation Step 1
Documentation – one of the most important aspects of being a systems administrator or developer, but often overlooked: A comprehensive guide to IT-documentation Step 1
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Oracle Finally Killed Sun | Meshed Insights Ltd – Larry Ellison should be ashamed of himself.
https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun” target=”_blank”>https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/”>https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun small list of things Oracle fucked up with the Sun Microsystems Purchase: Java MySQL Solaris SPARC Processors Staroffice OpenSolaris Sun Cloud
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ansible Archives – IOD: (must read for Ansible users)
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Ansible-Pull is a great way to configure your servers at build time. I use the Red Hat Kickstart method of building a server, so configuration using ansible is just one line in the post installation portion of the kickstart file: ansible-pull -d /tmp/ansprod_repo -U git://ansible.nyc.mizuhocap.com/ansprod-pull These are the steps necessary for using ansible-pull: * The […]
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
http://sysadminday.com/ SysAdmin Day July 28, 2017 – 18th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Joel Zimmerman (DeadMau5), one of my favorite artists has an incredible technology setup at his home. here’s a great mix you can listen to when you’re done drooling over the tech
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WTF is an SRE
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies that to operations whose goals are to create ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems A site reliability engineer (SRE) will ideally spend up to 50% of their time doing “ops” related work such as issues, on-call, and manual intervention. Since […]
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