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Managing Virtual Teams

Influencing Virtual Teams: 17 Tactics That Get Thigns Done with Your Remote Employees_

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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies For New Leaders At All Levels

If you have just been promoted to a new leadership position (or expect to be soon), then this book is for you.

The book outlines ten strategies that will shorten the time it takes you to reach what Watkins calls the breakeven point: the point at which your organization needs you as much as you need the job.

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Indicators in Practice

What Do You and Your Users Care About?

• Too many and they become noise, too few may leave significant behaviors of your system unexamined

Broad Categories

• User-facing serving systems
• Availability - Could we respond to the request?

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Chapter 4: Service Level Objectives

Choosing appropriate metrics helps to drive the right action if something goes wrong, and also gives an SRE team confidence that a service is healthy.

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Service Level Terminology

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Project Lifecycle

Identification

• Medium large size organizations will have a governance strategy.
• Businesses will determine their strategic objectives, leading to programs of work being identified which will enable the business to achieve its strategic objectives.
  • these programs are intern broken down into projects.

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Launch Readiness Review Survey

The purpose of this document is to gather information to be evaluated prior to the launch of a new service.

General Launch Information

• What is the service name?
• When is the launch date/time?
• Is this a soft or hard launch?

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Have Better Meetings

Two main problems:

1. Too many meetings
2. Too many bad meetings

What You Should Do Before Every Meeting

• Decide On a Need

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Kubernetes

Greek for "Helmsman"; also the root of the words "governor" and "cubernetic"

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• Best Practicies

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def disk_usage():
  cmd = "df -h | grep /mnt/log-storage"
  df = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
  output = df.communicate()[0]
  print output

disk_usage()

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#!/bin/bash
# Remove old kernels and clean up inode count.

[ "$(whoami)" = root ] || { echo "Please run this script as root" && exit 1; }

CURRENT_KERNEL=$(uname -r | sed s/-generic//g)
OLD_KERNEL_LIST=$(find /usr/src -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -not -name "*$CURRENT_KERNEL*" -exec basename {} \;)

echo -e "Current kernel: $(uname -r)\n"
echo -e "Old kernels: \n$OLD_KERNEL_LIST\n"