Crunch Tools

I finished reading this article on High Scalability entitled, Troubleshooting Response Time Problems – Why You Cannot Trust Your System Metrics and it reminded me of why I developed a Cacti graphing plugin for monitoring sockets, pipes and files.

Well, it’s official, I have accepted a position at Red Hat. I am excited because Red Hat is a company that I have wanted to work with since I started using Linux 1998. For Red Hat, I will be a Solutions Architect for Enterprise Linux, also known as a technology evangelist. Now, it’s my job [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I heard the owner of our company talking on the phone to a client. In the conversation, he referred to me as a rockstar sysadmin. Thankfully, he wasn’t talking about my singing. I chuckled a bit, but didn’t think too much of it. I mean, it feels good to be [...]