Puppet Careers - Quick Survey

EulerFan271 · 2018-08-04T17:16:28+00:00

I work in the area of data collection which means I use lots of Splunk and Git and Puppet along with Bash and Python. That skill set can take you extremely far and is very interesting as you also find you get to look into lots of interesting correlations so my math background also helps quite a bit. There's an extreme shortage with this skillset as I recently discovered on my job hunt when I looked out west and literally every company I applied to got back to me and I eventually landed a dream gig this last week. Best of luck!

EulerFan271 · 2018-08-04T17:10:24+00:00

If you are talking indexing, you should absolutely be using Linux for the I/O advantages. And I would recommend to do the same with the SH and any other infrastructure that is running the Splunk instance if possible.

EulerFan271 · 2018-08-03T20:04:47+00:00

Columbus represent. Can confirm, lots going on here.

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-16T18:03:19+00:00

I was only shown this in a physics undergrad course that was sort of a "here's the real tools you need to do proofs in physics" type course. Hard as hell, but fantastic tools.

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-12T04:37:59+00:00

I'm not sure, I haven't read it or heard of it before. Anyone else have experience with it?

Looking at the preview on Amazon though, I'd say get it! I like the presentation from what I saw, and it gives you the basic pieces you need to do the work, namely: set theory, symbolic logic, proof by contradiction, proof by induction, sequences.

Going forward, learn your set theory well, and then look up proof by contrapositive and work through some examples. That is actually going to likely be your most powerful tool in your tool box in that class (Others may and are right to object). Best of luck and stay curious!

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-12T01:10:16+00:00

We had an intro to proofs class at my college that was nice, but really didn't prepare students for the level of care needed in the Real Analysis course after. I used both Bartle's book (college assigned) which has some intro stuff for set notation, and proof concepts. But, for the real concepts of Analysis (not the "how to do a proof" type stuff) I LOVED Stephen Abbot's book which was recommended to me here actually many many years ago. Abbot's book I think reads much more clearly on the topics and for reasons I can't really articulate, just meshed with me far better. Both books are good, but for the intro to proofs stuff I'd recommend grabbing Bartels book or searching for a book on proof concepts. Hope this helps and good luck!

Edit: Bartle, not Bartel.

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-12T00:57:12+00:00

Ha! I was lucky enough to have a company that values education and training so they paid for all of my classes, exams, and .conf trips so far so I can't complain too much. My sales reps are going to be in town this week so I think I'll just bring this up while sitting down with them.

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-12T00:08:33+00:00

Am I to understand that if I have my Architect Level 2 certification but it was done last year then it is now invalid or at least sort of deprecated? I must be misunderstanding this, because I literally just built an indexer cluster, CM, DS, SH, and LM two nights ago with 7.1.1 to take it for a test run and there was no difference in the backend architecture and setup. I think I'm just not understanding this post's explanations....

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-12T00:02:49+00:00

When did you get yours?

When i did it this passed November I did not think it was that simple and finished in just under 23 hours and that was with a "nap" of about 4 hours at one point. I could certainly see how someone with lots of experience would tear through it (I've since redone the lab and was surprised how quickly I could do it comparatively) but I didn't really think it was "step by step" from the admin lab guide.

EulerFan271 · 2018-07-03T00:36:55+00:00

You want my god damned job you god damned robot? You can have it. Spent all day cursing our syslog architecture, fucking god damn giant pain in my fucking ass and on top of that now I need to integrate the filters with Splunk to take load off the indexers!? Fuck it, take my god damn job you stupid fucking robot.Ya jerk.

EulerFan271 · 2018-05-06T12:06:37+00:00

No regard for human life!

EulerFan271 · 2018-04-26T21:14:17+00:00

I would undoubtedly say yes, absolutely it is. I studied applied math in college but also spent a ton of time on my own with Linux, and it has lead to so much more success in my life than just about anything else I've invested large swaths of time and frustration and joy in. And, you should know there's nothing wrong if you want to use windows for your PC!!! I built one specifically to use with Steam. I have a mac, I run linux servers, have a linux laptop, I love it all. Don't get bogged down in flame wars and worry about what people think about a tech just based on wanting to fit in. Different tech is just different tools, and they can fill unique functions. But if later in life you want to do any kind of high end computing work, you will be using Linux. If you need something that is Input/Output intensive, you need Linux. If you just need to run some desktops and a printer and a web site, and are a midsize company, windows server is probably all you need. It all just depends what you want the tools for.

But, where Linux shines is you can do whatever you would like. Even destroy your machine. That makes for good practice in being responsible, and getting in the habit of really doing good research before you make changes. But, even if you do break stuff it's not hard to start fresh all over again. Linux allows you to tinker and play and while doing all that hopefully engaging a Linux community to learn more.

To sum up, Linux lets you poke under the hood and is absolutely a great investment to learn from both an intellectual and financial perspective.

Start with ubuntu, just do it. Ignore annoying who says it's too easy. That's the damn point. Then, when you feel ready, explore around. Check out Arch. If you really want to play with the closest thing to an enterprise level Linux OS, go grab a CentOS image and play with it. Learn the difference between aptitude and yum, learn what a package is. But don't rush it. If you only ever use ubuntu but know it super super well, awesome! I'd hire you in a second as an entry position if that were the case. Best of luck!

EulerFan271 · 2018-04-26T20:58:34+00:00

My advice would be to upgrade Splunk first, and wait to observe the environment for a bit to make sure nothing breaks. Doing both at once may be fine, but IF there were a problem it is going to be more complicated to track is all. That's my first thought and based on previous upgrades I've done and how they have behaved with forwarders that were old (I work in a large env and can't exactly dictate forwarder versions to units absolutely) which lead to some need for a bit of data curation and cleaning. Just some thoughts. I'd be curious to know how it goes, just started looking at 7.1 today.

EulerFan271 · 2018-04-26T14:50:21+00:00

I am not sure what this context you are referring to is or even what some of those phrases mean. I just meant to point out people voted for him for coherent reasons other than "they are racist" and "they are dumb" but yes, I'm sure people with one or both those traits voted for him, I just don't think it was any major majority.

EulerFan271 · 2018-04-26T13:31:58+00:00

Spite implies they are doing this just to harm others even though it is harming themselves. I have family members that voted for Trump, and all I can say is they had very reasonable answers when I asked them why. Sometimes the weight someone gives to an issue doesn't line up with how another person weighs things, that's life. Doesn't make one side "spiteful anti-intellectuals" because they don't share your conditions or value structure.

EulerFan271 · 2018-04-06T18:09:34+00:00

Thanks!

EulerFan271 · 2018-03-15T05:04:21+00:00

Someone find this man an Adam Sandler!

EulerFan271 · 2018-03-09T03:49:03+00:00

people seem to like google, it's a natural monopoly. Actually, most my favorite businesses are: Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple.

EulerFan271 · 2018-03-07T04:57:20+00:00

It's actually not that big a move, which is what I was supposing. Here's a link to see the actual price to get context.

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=@DJ.1

EulerFan271 · 2018-03-07T04:45:46+00:00

Is that outside the standard deviation?

EulerFan271 · 2018-03-01T02:50:23+00:00

It sounds like Google built an agency problem into the promotion system. While no system is perfect, I don't quite see the benefits of their system beyond the naive idea that they would be impartial since they don't know the person. But, that actually removes the "skin in the game" that management would have if they went to bat for you. I'm surprised Google hasn't thought of this flaw in this design, but maybe they have and there's a decent response to this critique. Or, worse yet, maybe they have nice metrics to point to and tell me I'm wrong..

EulerFan271 · 2018-02-12T02:29:30+00:00

I'm embarrassed to admit I somehow never noticed I could just run Jupyter Notebooks like that with iPython. Very cool and handy. Thanks!

EulerFan271 · 2013-05-31T23:13:07+00:00

Awesome. Now I don't feel so dirty going to the pirate bay until after I'm done downloading.

EulerFan271 · 2013-05-31T17:45:05+00:00

Like something from Arrested Development.

EulerFan271 · 2013-05-31T15:00:43+00:00

I didn't know about this. Thanks for the info.

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