Born to be root
August 21, 2009
I like my life right now.
I recently changed job and started working for a young IT firm, as a software developer. But before developing some code you need servers to run it on. So for the past two months I have become a sysadmin.
BORN TO BE ROOOOOT. Yeh yeh yeh.
It's like being a kid in a candy shop. I get plenty of monster servers to play with, setting them up in high-availability clusters, reading tons of doc, playing around with heartbeat, drbd, nagios, system setups and the like. And once I am done plugging everything in the server hall, I size a huge hammer with spikes and I turn violent on them. I draw plugs, cut the power, unplug wires, remove hard drives and power supplies out of living servers. And I watch their struggle for survival. I split their brains and watch how they fight for control. That's really a lot of fun. And extremely instructive for the developer I am.
So very soon I'll have a 21st century clustered network to run my code on. How cool is that!
I recently changed job and started working for a young IT firm, as a software developer. But before developing some code you need servers to run it on. So for the past two months I have become a sysadmin.
BORN TO BE ROOOOOT. Yeh yeh yeh.
It's like being a kid in a candy shop. I get plenty of monster servers to play with, setting them up in high-availability clusters, reading tons of doc, playing around with heartbeat, drbd, nagios, system setups and the like. And once I am done plugging everything in the server hall, I size a huge hammer with spikes and I turn violent on them. I draw plugs, cut the power, unplug wires, remove hard drives and power supplies out of living servers. And I watch their struggle for survival. I split their brains and watch how they fight for control. That's really a lot of fun. And extremely instructive for the developer I am.
So very soon I'll have a 21st century clustered network to run my code on. How cool is that!
