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Ryn Daniels
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On simplifying and monitoring

The more complex a system is, the more complex it becomes to accurately monitor the system. Each interaction between different parts of the system is a potential point of failure. Your monitoring systems will need to grow and develop alongside the systems they are monitoring.

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arguing with computers, blogRyn DanielsMarch 12, 2014
On DNS explosions

The First Law of Yaks is that there are always more yaks than you expect. A tale of ec2 metadata, chef runs, and mongo elections gone awry.

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arguing with computers, blogRyn DanielsFebruary 7, 2014
On magical sudo powers

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you find people abusing puppet exec in order to get their work done, you might want to rethink your permission scheme just a wee bit.

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arguing with computers, blogRyn DanielsDecember 6, 2012
On sending Zenoss events to an IRC channel

Setting up a Zenoss event command to send a message to our NOC IRC channel, since that's where events and errors already get discussed.

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arguing with computers, blogRyn DanielsApril 19, 2012
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