I recently wrote this to highlight real world use cases where I believe LLMs/Generative can actually help. Instead of fluff, I tried to break down real challenges for sysadmins. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3482087/what-generative-ai-can-do-for-sysadmins.html
Year: 2024
InfoWorld: Kubernetes shows the way forward for AI
I wrote an article that explains why community-driven open source is especially important with AI: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2337481/kubernetes-shows-the-way-forward-for-ai.html
Part 2: Asking Other Teams to Do Something Really Hard: Platform Software
Background In Part 1: Asking Other Teams to Do Something Really Hard, we explored two simple examples of when asking a person or team something really simple turns into something really inefficient. In that first article, we used simple examples, like new users asking simple questions over and over on Reddit or a mailing list.
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Finding an Alternative to Camscanner
Background I’ve been using Camscanner since 2017, maybe a bit before. I started using it to collect receipts for expense reports when I was traveling heavily for work as a Technical Marketing Manager. I was easily doing 100-150 nights a year, and the mundane task of keeping track of expenses can get quite tedious. Camscanner
Part 1: Asking Other Teams to Do Something Really Hard
Background There’s a common move with software teams; one team will ask another team to do something really hard so that the first team can do something really easy. Most of the time, we don’t even mean to do it. But, it causes a lot of stress and wastes a lot of time. It reminds
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Linux Container Crisis Tools
I want to highlight a great post by Brendan Gregg: Linux Crisis Tools. He does a walk through of a scenario that strikes me as very realistic, and brings back memories from my 15 years managing Linux servers. You can tell he has real-world sysadmin experience. I think that’s key for being a good thought
FOSDEM 2024: The State of Enterprise Linux 2024
For years, I think many of us in the open source world assumed that we knew everything there was to know about open source, but the truth is, we’re all still learning. In the last couple of years, there have been some big changes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) supply chain, often referred to as Enterprise Linux or EL for short. This talk will help people understand these changes year over year, and what the future might hold.
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