July 2011 Archives

Just in time for Sysadmin Appreciation Week...

People often ask me how they can improve their sysadmin team. It takes only a brief discussion to find fundamental gaps that, when filled, will improve the teams's productivity and the quality of the service being provided.

To help you find these gaps, I present: The Limoncelli Test

This coming Friday, July 29, 2011 is the 12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

http://www.sysadminday.com/

LOPSA has a list of vendors giving discounts that day (including their own membership is 25% off!)

Here are the celebrations that I know about:

• Los Angeles, CA: http://sysadminday.eventbrite.com/
• NYC, NY: http://nycsysadminday.eventbrite.com/
• Columbus, OH: http://614-sysadmin-day.eventbrite.com/
• San Francisco, CA: http://opendns-sysadminappreciation2011.eventbrite.com/
• Chicago, IL: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100672293360534
• Buenos Aires, Argentina: http://eleccionroot.com/index.php

Cluster management operates on a very large scale: whereas a storage system that can hold a petabyte of data is considered large by most people, our storage systems will send us an emergency page when it has only a few petabytes of free space remaining.

This guy is not exaggerating.

This is why I love working at Google. (Did I mention that my coworker has a sign on his desk that says, "I work here because I love this shit!")

Tom