The Practice of System and Network Administration Quotes

“The small batches principle is part of the DevOps methodology. It comes from the Lean Manufacturing movement, which is often called just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“A person with a watch knows what time it is. A person with two watches is never sure.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“SAs must find a balance between giving users full access and restricting them. This balance affects the rate at which the OS will decay. A wise person once said, “To err is human; to really screw up requires the root password.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“A system administrator sometimes needs to be a business-process consultant, corporate visionary, janitor, software engineer, electrical engineer, economist, psychiatrist, mindreader, and, occasionally, bartender. As”
― Thomas A Limoncelli, Practice of System and Network Administration, The: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

“Most network providers do not sell latency, just bandwidth.”
― Thomas A. Limoncelli, The Practice of System and Network Administration