Category Archives: sysadmin
You can’t just have a sysadmin on call
Reading through the Azure cloud outage root cause analysis from the other week made me think about the problem they encountered, what was needed to fix it and the timeline of events. It looked something like this: 4:00PM PST, Feb … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 72
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. What’s new in Linux 3.3 We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land … Continue reading
The problem with using Twitter for ops status updates
On Monday, Zendesk (who we use for our support) had a service issue. They’re extremely good at posting status updates and replying to complaints/questions on Twitter but the problem is their feed quickly gets filled up with @replies so it’s … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 71
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. Using event capturing to improve Basecamp page load times Host resolution in Chromium – Here I present the current considerations of host resolution in Chromium, and … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 70
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. Wine 1.4 sports a redesigned audio stack, improved graphics rendering Evolution of a Python programmer Twitter using SPDY EC2 Updates: New Medium Instance, 64-bit Ubiquity, SSH … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 69
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed at Deviantart Submarine Cable Map Apache 2.4 Faster Than Nginx? 8 hour Azure outage caused by 29 Feb leap … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 68
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. How Mailinator compresses email by 90% How to do cheap backups Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years Designing Network … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 67
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. Behind the scenes of how modern web browsers work /etc/os-release Tumblr Architecture – 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter Subscribe … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 66
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. PHP 5.4 Benchmarks Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking Subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter for interesting links throughout the … Continue reading
Sysadmin Sunday 65
This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week. Sudo format string vulnerability XFS: the filesystem of the future? SSH: More than secure shell SSH Security and You – /bin/false is *not* security RFC: 1925 … Continue reading
