There are two problems that many IT folks will have in their career: In this post, I want to chat about the basics of building effective monitoring in terms of

There are two problems that many IT folks will have in their career: In this post, I want to chat about the basics of building effective monitoring in terms of defining problems and recoveries. We're monitoring servers and databases and network switches and whatnot, duh! Well, if only it were

Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a

Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a command line interface. I'm here to talk about plain text power moves, but not in that sense. I want to