Wisdom

Sysadmin code: make it work, and make it not break at night

Quote

it's like, you know, just make it work, peer, you know, period and make it not break in the middle of the night where I had to fix it. That's, you know, those are two, those are two things.

Episode 1: Episode 1 00:32:52 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Back in the day a sysadmin had to be a programmer to get the job done, Dave says. Not a computer-science kind of programming, just practical code held to two standards.