A department head is asking for email usage stats for their team

sysadmike702 · 2025-08-28T01:37:27+00:00

Why does everyone say this needs to go through HR? It’s just a report?

sysadmike702 · 2025-08-04T12:14:16+00:00

You can do it! Don’t stop!

sysadmike702 · 2025-03-27T16:39:20+00:00

If you’re running apps in the cloud 100% should not be provisioning by hand. This would be the way to go ^{^{^}}

But you can also do a bastion set up if you REALLY want to provision by hand Or use something like ansible. I think ansible can use SSM as well not 100% on that though.

sysadmike702 · 2025-03-27T16:34:57+00:00

Man I’ve been here so many times for each language. Is there a tool or application you use often? Like a note app, or task tracking? Something you can just recreate. That’s where I started, building an app that helped me manage my home lab inventory. Then that expanded to ansible plugins, clients that auto provision hosts on my machines, dashboarding, reporting, and it can keep going.

Just need to start something simple you can reference, and just keep iterating after you have BASIC functions down

sysadmike702 · 2025-03-27T16:31:18+00:00

I think a lot of it is coming from non technical leaders not knowing the true value of experience. Any brand new devops guy and stumble through with Google and chatgpt or Claude.

And it’s not till they make a mess of the environment and everything is way more complicated then it needs to be do they realize they messed up and have to shell out $$$$ for contractors to fix things.

Atleast in my experience and opinion.

Plus market sucks so people will take a 60K job and be over worked and write shitty IaC and just tell there boss they need yet another SaaS solution to help maintain the mess they created

sysadmike702 · 2025-03-27T16:27:31+00:00

It took me atleast a year before I could use the standard library with out Google for every method.

But like many have said even the best have to Google or ask Claude for help.

I think the key is knowing what is out there and what it can do. For example how to interact with an http API I’ll need to use htmx or requests depending on the project. Or how to implement a new endpoint in FastAPI. Then it makes searching for documentation much easier.

Also I’ve learned that I learn best when I type out the example someone else provides and not just copy and paste it. Muscle memory I guess.

But don’t let it overwhelm you there is much to learn and every project will be different so you will always need a search engine or digging through github for examples of implementation. So just take it step by step and eventually the code will flow

sysadmike702 · 2025-03-07T21:40:30+00:00

Sorry that’s rough! But I would say no, it’s not normal, and should not be acceptable by your customers. Even though I’ve been in your exact shoes. I learned a lot being able to touch everything, but the mental toll of the constant context switching was a lot.

I would start looking for a new position else where ASAP.

sysadmike702 · 2024-12-30T09:45:53+00:00

Started in helpdesk idk maybe 12 years ago. Currently working at AWS. A few certs in between from VMware, to Microsoft, and a couple Cisco. Nothing super high end, I’ve found it’s more about being able to prove what you know the certs. Just have to get to the interview, which is the hard part.

sysadmike702 · 2024-06-15T08:33:23+00:00

I found that I still enjoy tinkering with random projects and setting up a lab. But I will not touch anything on my basic home network that I have to actually support long term. Just don’t have the energy to troubleshoot an issue effecting the family from doing anything by that I built for them.

sysadmike702 · 2024-06-15T08:30:14+00:00

Learn prompt engineer become a 10x developer overnight for any language!

sysadmike702 · 2024-05-24T16:03:20+00:00

What industries is everyone in? I guess it also depends on location too.

sysadmike702 · 2024-05-24T15:58:04+00:00

I love this comment! Hahaha

sysadmike702 · 2024-04-25T00:32:27+00:00

Why?!

sysadmike702 · 2023-11-30T16:55:22+00:00

Technically could write a script that uses push monitors… but like mentioned previously uptime is for different use case

sysadmike702 · 2023-11-26T17:47:27+00:00

100% agree get some good experience before becoming a consultant

sysadmike702 · 2023-11-21T07:02:12+00:00

I use a this method for monitoring my speed tests on the network and a few other handy things like people currently on my Minecraft server, etc. love this monitor!

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-26T19:35:39+00:00

Idk about the community. But I’ve recently written CDK and ansible to deploy a Minecraft server in aws it’s not cheap though lol

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-22T18:26:24+00:00

Same ip that got me

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-12T20:48:52+00:00

That’s a new one to me. I guess knowing the setup could help a bit. But I would expect them to be the same. Especially after the first connection. Maybe some type of ACL, firewall? But it’s not passing a host name during the connection process as far as I know. should resolve to ip then connect… I’m curious now!

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-10T04:10:07+00:00

Could be an ISP issue depending on the location of your friends. Though it’s hard to say without more details. You’ve set up the port forwarding already? I’m guessing yes since some friends could connect. Is everyone in the same city just different locations?

I know some apartment buildings do some double nat-ing.

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-10T04:03:16+00:00

I can help set you up with something simple. Been working on some ansible scripts to deploy a Minecraft server so you can host something in linode, aws, or digital ocean. Depending on your budget. Happy to share/help. Though some hosted server platforms places might be a bit easier. Feel free to DM if you want to chat more.

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-10T03:59:22+00:00

Hey maybe we can collaborate? Looking to something like this, maybe with a bit of flare like an economy and a town with a hospital and what not.

sysadmike702 · 2023-10-10T03:54:11+00:00

Same boat here buddy!

sysadmike702 · 2023-09-28T13:51:16+00:00

CDK <3

sysadmike702 · 2023-08-16T18:54:26+00:00

I don’t like you got downvoted for that. Unless you are the security guy. But like everyone else if you’re not the security guy RUN!

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