morekid

1. Humans build and fix systems.
2. Humans get tired and stressed, they feel happy and sad.
3. Systems don't have feelings yet. They only have SLAs.
4. Humans need to switch off and on again.
5. The wellbeing of human operators impacts the reliability of systems.
6. Alert Fatigue == Human Fatigue
7. Automate as much as possible, escalate to a human as a last resort.
8. Document everything. Train everyone. Save time.
9. Kill the shame game.
10. Human issues are system issues.

kristopolous

// Usage:
//   Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread 
//   then use as follows:
//
//   query(term | [term, term, ...], term | [term, term, ...], ...)
// 
// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
//
// Term is of the format:
//    ((-)text/RegExp)  ( '-' means negation )

gbuesing

UPDATE a fork of this gist has been used as a starting point for a community-maintained "awesome" list: machine-learning-with-ruby Please look here for the most up-to-date info!

Resources for Machine Learning in Ruby

Gems

• liblinear-ruby: Ruby interface to LIBLINEAR using SWIG

shamil

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8

night-before-opsmas.txt

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the racks
Not a server was alerting, not even Compaqs.
The backups were written to tapes with care
In hopes that later the data would be there.

The machines were nestled all snug in their sleds
Whilst visions of vengeance danced in their heads;
And oncall in his three-wolf and I in my rack.
Had just settled down for some syn and some ack.