Archive for March, 2008

Link roundup

March 31st, 2008

Some useful stuff:

Tools of the Trade — Iostat, Vmstat, and Netstat - article at the now-defunct SysAdmin magazine about using the named tools to troubleshoot performance issues. Good intro if you’re unfamiliar; syntax used is for Solaris and AIX.
Sharding and Time-Base Partitioning - article from MySQL Performance Blog discussing aspects of […]

How to make your hiring manager cry

March 6th, 2008

I feel a little let down. You see, I’m hiring for an open sysadmin position, and … it turns out that it is hard work. Curse you, recession, keeping everybody from wanting to job-hop willy-nilly!
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted the job to LOPSA and Sage’s job boards. (Representin’ my […]