A more detailed reply:
3) really? the core of devops is to be data-driven in your decisions. how can you decide if you are maintaining the right uptime if you don't measure it?
8) I agree with you, as does the text. I think you may have reversed what I wrote.
9) The good ones write so that they "think before they do". On a larger team it is important to communicate what you are about to do, or what you have done. I prefer to write mini design docs. The team I'm on does this and I like it so much I want to spread the word.
11: Again, the team I'm on does this and it works so well I want to spread the word. I see I need to expand this out to explain why, not just how.
14: I'll clarify that the point is not to make big changes on your production system. Whether it is qa+live or a zillion steps including dev, qa, UAT, pre-prod, canary and prod. As long as it isn't zero steps.
22: refresh policy: This is for PCs (non-servers). I'll clarify.
23: The last part makes your point. I'll rewrite to make it more evident
28: "Anti-malware? Really? In 2011? I'm sure you have a whole blog post". Yes, I do: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/04/apt.html
Thanks for the reminder to add a link! (and if you are blown away that I had to list this, you can imagine my surprise about finding sites that violated this one!)
A more detailed reply: 3) really? the core of devops is to be data-driven in your decisions. how can you decide if you are maintaining the right uptime if you don't measure it?
8) I agree with you, as does the text. I think you may have reversed what I wrote.
9) The good ones write so that they "think before they do". On a larger team it is important to communicate what you are about to do, or what you have done. I prefer to write mini design docs. The team I'm on does this and I like it so much I want to spread the word.
11: Again, the team I'm on does this and it works so well I want to spread the word. I see I need to expand this out to explain why, not just how.
14: I'll clarify that the point is not to make big changes on your production system. Whether it is qa+live or a zillion steps including dev, qa, UAT, pre-prod, canary and prod. As long as it isn't zero steps.
22: refresh policy: This is for PCs (non-servers). I'll clarify.
23: The last part makes your point. I'll rewrite to make it more evident
28: "Anti-malware? Really? In 2011? I'm sure you have a whole blog post". Yes, I do: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/04/apt.html Thanks for the reminder to add a link! (and if you are blown away that I had to list this, you can imagine my surprise about finding sites that violated this one!)