Everything Sysadmin

Articles from the ACM Queue column "Everything Sysadmin", written by Thomas A. Limoncelli. is the SRE manager at Stack Overflow Inc. in New York City. His books include The Practice of System and Network Administration (http://the-sysadmin-book.com), The Practice of Cloud System Administration (http://the-cloud-book.com), and Time Management for System Administrators (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do). He blogs at EverythingSysadmin.com and tweets at @YesThatTom. He holds a B.A. in computer science from Drew University.

This collections includes 23 articles published between 2011 and 2024.

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2024 (2)

2024
2024
Make Two Trips: Larry David's New Year's resolution works for IT too
ACM queue (FREE) 2024 (2); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2023 (2)

2023
2023

2022 (1)

2022

2020 (3)

2020
2020
2020
Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More
ACM queue (FREE) 2020 (1); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2019 (3)

2019
API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
ACM queue (FREE) 2019 (5); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019
Demo Data as Code
ACM queue (FREE) 2019 (3); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019
Tom's Top Ten Things Executives Should Know About Software
ACM queue (FREE) 2019 (1); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2018 (2)

2018
SQL is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
ACM queue (FREE) 2018 (5); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018
GitOps: A Path to More Self-service IT
ACM queue (FREE) 2018 (3); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2017 (2)

2017
Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
ACM queue (FREE) 2017 (5); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2017
Four Ways to Make CS & IT Curricula More Immersive
ACM queue (FREE) 2017 (3); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2016 (3)

2016
Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
ACM queue (FREE) 2016 (6); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016
10 Optimizations on Linear Search
ACM queue (FREE) 2016 (4); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016
The Small Batches Principle
ACM queue (FREE) 2016 (2); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2015 (2)

2015
How Sysadmins Devalue Themselves
ACM queue (FREE) 2015 (9); by Thomas A. Limoncelli
2015
Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
ACM queue (FREE) 2015 (8); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2012 (2)

2012
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
ACM queue (FREE) 2012 (9); by Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, Thomas A. Limoncelli
2012
OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
ACM queue (FREE) 2012 (6); by Thomas A. Limoncelli

2011 (1)

2011
Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really
ACM queue (FREE) 2011 (3); by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Vinton G. Cerf