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The Art of Sysadmin

A podcast about the human side of sysadmin

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    Burnout Hell

    Content Warning: This episode talks about various mental health episodes such as burnout and depression. Here we are, the last episode of this season of The Art of Sysadmin. I left the heaviest topic for last. Here is a rough list of things I talk about in this episode: what is burnout? what causes it? overwork not enough personal time work intruding on personal time fighting fires what does it feel like? feeling empty inside feeling dead inside depressive episodes lack of self confidence how do we prevent and/or mitigate it? work-life balance setting aside time specifically for personal growth and enjoyment self care and balance fuck capitalism, go home If you wish to support the podcast financially, you can do so on here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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    Finding Purpose and Joy

    That sure is a title for a podcast episode eh? In this episode we talk about the following topics: Why do I do this? Fun Learning Work interest The Joy of Building Infrastructure Making Friends Helping People Reference links: EntropyNet – the IRC network Ten Forward – the fediverse instance If you wish to support the podcast financially, you can do so on here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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    Cattle vs. Pets

    In this episode I talk about the concept of cattle vs. pets and how it relates to the concept of scale and scaling. I talk about my particular methodology of management and how I came to it. I talk about the concept’s relation to designing systems and about simplicity and complexity in said design. No Kubernetes clusters were harmed in the making of this episode. Reference links: My Ansible playbooks Kubernetes If you wish to support the podcast financially, you can do so on here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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    What’s in a name?

    In this episode of The Art of Sysadmin, I talk about names. More specifically, I talk about the names we give computers: the hostname. I get into how I picked a naming scheme, what my methodology is and personal touches like references to certain characters from media I enjoy. Some reference links: Hostname Fully qualified domain name Dresden Files Characters If you wish to support the podcast financially, you can do so on here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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    Introductions

    Welcome to the very first episode of the The Art of Sysadmin podcast! This podcast is one where I approach various system administration topics from a more human perspective rather than a purely technical perspective. This is for now a solo podcast, that is: it is just me talking into a mic. This first episode is me talking about myself and how I got into the hobby/field and my intentions for this podcast. Thank you for listening, and if you enjoyed it please share the podcast with a friend! If you wish to support the podcast financially, you can do so on here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast about the human side of sysadmin

HOSTED BY

Sadiq Saif

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