Tag: sysadmin
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6 Ways To Kill Your Servers – Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
Good article over at HighScalability.com about what happens when a coder, even an experienced one, has to scale out a web site under time pressure. The most important lessons in my opinion are caching, tweaking configuration and stress testing.
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How to be a better sysadmin
Matt Simmons over at Standalone Sysadmin wrote about xenophobia and elitism among sysadmins and I couldn’t have written it better myself: The way that I’ve found that seems to work best for me in understanding other people, and having them understand me, is to put myself in their place, and consider the situation from their…
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Accountability and signatures
Here’s a really great idea from Bob Planket over at The Lone Sysadmin.