Simon Willison’s Weblog

We’re all ops people now. Edd’s experience reflects my own: the kind of systems I’m building these days involve way more than just development, they often involve significant sysadmin type skills as well. Desperately need to get better at that stuff. 20th June 2008, 9:02 pm

god—process and task monitoring done right. I have a long running animosity towards every process monitoring tool currently in existence; I’ll have to put this one through its paces and see if it sucks less. 29th March 2008, 10:20 pm

System Administrator Appreciation Day. The last Friday in July is Annual System Administrator Appreciation day. Thank (or hug) your sysadmin today! 27th July 2007, 7:21 pm

Understanding your (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) daemons. A handy bestiary. 10th April 2007, 9:49 am