The last few months have been a bit hectic, let's say that.
In work, a few things happened. I got promoted to 'Director', which is the top end of the management progression, bottom of executive. What either of these mean, I'll probably never know. About a year or so …
Category: Log Tagged: log life
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I was away last week with work to an offsite at the Club Med, which as far as I can gather is one of those soviet-era collective holiday camps for people who weren't in a soviet. I bet the soviets never had nespresso on demand.
Bizarrely, the weather in Ireland …
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The weather turns and turns. We're well into the season where things spring out, and make you cut them back, or just be happy they're there. Our garden has rhubarb. Enough for a tiny put of jam, or perhaps a Mr. Kipling's style rhubarb tartlet or two.
It also is …
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Further to the Reddit AMA I was involved in a few years back (I am /u/sre_pointyhair) - "The Guy" showed up at my desk last week.
Alas, I was away, and he had to make do with doing the unspeakable things we do to keep servers running from my …
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I finally got my grubby mitts on an actual dead-tree copy of the SRE book. I've wanted this to exist for many years, and it's finally out there. I wrote a chapter on working with teams with high interrupt loads where the team consists of humans. It's a paraphrase of …
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