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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs I appreciate all of these, and all are exercises for any level of skill. Knowing the range of exercises available allows for more targeted improvement. Doing so follows the adage of ‘practice makes perfect.’ If that’s the case, please share.

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Leveling Up: Skill Building for Systems Administrators

taos

I appreciate all of these, and all are exercises for any level of skill. Knowing the range of exercises available, allows more targeted improvement. Install the software into a test environment; play with it there. Engage the source: read the source code; review the release notes; review outstanding bugs.

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Operations Training and Certification for Apache Cassandra® – Starts June 7

Instaclustr

IT professionals, software engineers, system administrators, and system operators who want to remain at the forefront of open-source software. Basic understanding and experience with Linux and Docker would be beneficial but not necessary to perform the exercises. Learning Outcomes.

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Why “Techsplaining” is a Bad Idea for System Admins

Modus Create

This article is predicated on Atlassian administration and my decade of experience helping people use Atlassian software, coupled with <mumble> decades of general system administration. It should be noted that these thoughts can be applied to any kind of system administration.

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Humans and AI: Should We Describe AI as Autonomous?

DataRobot

To have autonomy is to have the freedom to exercise self-determination, to rule oneself, to make decisions in accordance with one’s own goals, without external interference. In general, AI systems are not autonomous. According to the dictionary, autonomous means “having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.”

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Modern GRC: What is Change and How to Adapt

Saviynt

The access reviews detected if MFA was being bypassed, notifying the system administrator. In this case, there was a custom-scripted exception that needed to be monitored and approved by the administrator.

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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership

CircleCI

The code then regathers its wits and decides that, really, a branding exercise is what it needs. We get left on the floor, picked last, or somehow follow only those humans who exercise great care, regardless of what team they are on,” said the wise code. When I do mess with it, I get paged and bad things happen,” said a team leader.

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