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July 2025

  1. Last post!
  2. July 2025

November 2022

  1. Article: "Split Your Overwhelmed Teams"
  2. Usenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective.
  3. November 2022

October 2021

  1. see the timeline here
  2. 20 years of The Practice of System and Network Administration!
  3. October 2021

July 2021

  1. Hear Tom on The Software Engineering Daily Podcast
  2. July 2021

March 2021

  1. Updated BP Texas City Animation
  2. What to give your loved one for April Fools Day?
  3. March 2021

November 2020

  1. Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
  2. November 2020

October 2020

  1. Thu, Nov 19 NYCDEVOPS meetup: John Allspaw on "Learning From Incidents"
  2. Oct 15 NYC DevOps Meetup: "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering" by Nathen Harvey
  3. October 2020

September 2020

  1. Adarsh Shah on "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning" (September NYCDEVOPS Meetup)
  2. Book: Become Ansible by Josh Duffney
  3. September 2020

August 2020

  1. Time management for political sysadmins
  2. August 2020

March 2020

  1. Come work with me at Stack Overflow!
  2. March 2020

February 2020

  1. Get your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!
  2. February 2020

December 2019

  1. DevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!
  2. December 2019

October 2019

  1. November nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack
  2. October 2019

August 2019

  1. Demo Data as Code
  2. August 2019

June 2019

  1. Next nycdevops meetup: Kubernetes Informers (Wed, June 19)
  2. June 2019

April 2019

  1. April NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a tamper-evident CI/CD system
  2. April 2019

January 2019

  1. DevOpsDays-NYC nearly sold out! Register soon!
  2. January 2019

December 2018

  1. Ericsson/O2 outage root cause announced
  2. December 2018

November 2018

  1. Understanding your competition is a culture
  2. Taryn's SQL upgrade blog post
  3. November 2018

October 2018

  1. Tom @ Usenix LISA '18, Nashville, TN, Oct 29-31, 2018
  2. Tom @ DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 22-24, 2018
  3. Tom @ All Day DevOps, Oct 17 2018
  4. Google Authenticator tips
  5. October 2018

September 2018

  1. SREs with Windows experience? (NYC-area)
  2. I'll be at All-Day-DevOps: Free registration!
  3. Tom @ nycdevops, NYC, Sept 18, 2018
  4. Tom @ nycdevops meetup on Tuesday!
  5. LISA '18: Save on LISA registration!
  6. September 2018

August 2018

  1. Financial advice when you get a raise
  2. Stack Overflow in NYC is hiring Windows SREs
  3. "Continuous Discussion" Video Podcast today!
  4. August 2018

June 2018

  1. Google has changed GSuite's SPF records
  2. I'm hiring SREs/sysadmins and more!
  3. June 2018

May 2018

  1. SO (my employer) is hiring a Windows SRE/sysadmin in NY/NJ
  2. Launched: Stack Overflow for Teams!
  3. SRECon: Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
  4. May 2018

April 2018

  1. Accelerate NYC Launch Party, Saturday, April 21
  2. ZFS Users Conference, April 19-20, Norwalk, CT
  3. April 2018

March 2018

  1. Tom @ nycdevops Meetup, March 20, NYC
  2. Tom @ Usenix SRECon_Americas, March 26-29, Santa Clara, CA
  3. March 2018

February 2018

  1. DevOpsDays New York City 2019: Join the planning committee!
  2. Male Ally Summit 2018 (NYC)
  3. February 2018

January 2018

  1. DevOpsDays New York City 2018: Register now!
  2. January 2018

December 2017

  1. Save 40-60% on the 3rd edition of TPOSANA
  2. DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Speakers Announced!
  3. December 2017

November 2017

  1. Quick! Install that Mac printer now!
  2. Productivity When You Just Can't Even
  3. November NYC DevOps Meetup: Building a hybrid cloud
  4. Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
  5. Registration for NYC DOD 2018 is open!
  6. MicroReview: Usenix LISA 2017
  7. November 2017

October 2017

  1. Tom @ LISA17, San Francisco, CA, Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2017
  2. DevOpsDays New York City 2018 Announced!
  3. Vendor jerks at tech conferences
  4. Tom @ NYCDEVOPS, Mon, Oct 2, 2017, NYC
  5. October 2017

September 2017

  1. October NYCDevOps: Two meetings! DNSControl and Storing Secrets in the Cloud
  2. September NYCDevOps: Habitat in Production (Seth Thomas)
  3. September 2017

August 2017

  1. Evidence that Go makes it easy to get up to speed
  2. August 2017

July 2017

  1. Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
  2. Four Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive
  3. Still time to RSVP to NYCDevOps...
  4. Free book: "Expanding Pockets of Greatness"
  5. Tom's speaking at Red Hat User Group Tuesday in Woodbridge, NJ
  6. July NYCDevOps: Clos Networks for Datacenters
  7. Judging books by their covers
  8. July 2017

June 2017

  1. The .feedback scam
  2. NYC DevOps meeting tomorrow (Tuesday)
  3. Stackoverflow... but for questions about how to teach CS
  4. 2017 State of DevOps Report
  5. NYC DevOps meeting next week: Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack Overflow
  6. Tom on the Stack Overflow Podcast this week
  7. June 2017

May 2017

  1. How difficult is it to enable HTTPS on a large website?
  2. May 2017 NYCDevOps Meeting Notes
  3. The Blog March: A personal drumbeat of #resistance
  4. 3 things that made the 3rd edition better for education
  5. May 2017

April 2017

  1. Blog March... GO!
  2. Why tech conferences should have Tshirts in women's sizes
  3. DNS as Code
  4. Review: Tivo BOLT+
  5. Hollywood doesn't understand software
  6. New season of Archer starts tonight!
  7. April 2017

March 2017

  1. Tom @ SRECon_Americas, San Francisco, March 13-14, 2017
  2. Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, March 16, 2017
  3. Tom speaking at BayLISA meetup, Thu, March 16, 2017
  4. March 2017

February 2017

  1. February NYCDevOps meetup: Tiny Talks CfP
  2. Tom @ NYCDevOps, NY, Feb 21, 2017
  3. Tom speaking at NYCDevOps meetup, Feb 21, 2017
  4. Cascadia IT Conference: Registration is open!
  5. February 2017

January 2017

  1. New North Jersey Meetup, Wed, Feb 1, 2017
  2. Moving application plists to a new machine on macOS
  3. How I manage my work and personal GitHub accounts
  4. RIP John Boris
  5. How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack
  6. NYCDevOps meetup is re-starting!
  7. Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
  8. Tom speaking at the new LOPSA-NJ Montclair Meetup
  9. Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Montclair NJ, Feb 1, 2017
  10. January 2017

December 2016

  1. Notes on implementing flags for flag flips
  2. InfoQ's interview with the co-authors of TPOSANA 3rd edition
  3. Gall bladder Removal
  4. What I learned at LISA '16
  5. Tom + Christine @ SESA'16, Boston, MA, Dec 6, 2016
  6. Tom + Christine @ Usenix LISA '16, Boston, MA, Dec 4-9, 2016
  7. Tom & Chris @ Usenix LISA, Boston, Dec 4-9, 2016

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