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subjectPersonal Computing
authorThomas A. Limoncelli

Knowing What You Need to Know
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Knowing What You Need to Know

Personal, team, and organizational effectiveness can be improved with a little preparation.

The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs

Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.

SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
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SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.

GitOps
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GitOps: A Path to More Self-Service IT

IaC + PR = GitOps

Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
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Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks

Being funny is serious work.

Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?

Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.

10 Optimizations on Linear Search
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10 Optimizations on Linear Search

The operations side of the story.

Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
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Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking

An open standard that enables software-defined networking.

Successful Strategies For IPv6 Rollouts. Really.
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Successful Strategies For IPv6 Rollouts. Really.

Knowing where to begin is half the battle.

A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors
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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts

What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?
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