Sometimes you just gotta pop the hood — If you’re not familiar with using strace then this article is for you. strace is one of the best tools you can use to debug any running program. Before we dive in, you need to be familiar with system calls. It’s important that you have some familiarity with them as…

Okay so nothing that I suggested in my last troubleshooting post worked... so at this point did you turn it on and off? No? Good. Let’s jump into some more common system settings that can cause issues if not addressed for your application. No limits! Well, there are some limits in life…

Unless you really wanna cat out that whole file… — In the last few posts I covered system functions and some troubleshooting stuff, but now I want to shift focus in this post and talk about some commands that I use on a regular basis; commands I have stored on my trusty notepad that would definitely have coffee stains on…

Because sometimes turning it on and off isn’t enough — There’s a saying that I heard that goes something along the lines of, “If you have to turn something on and off it means you don’t understand what’s going on.” I’m not saying that turning something on and off doesn’t fix it, because it does it some cases. But I’m…

It’s a game you’ll never win. If you’ve never used or heard of grep then you’re probably not a unix user. In a nut shell, you give it a pattern or string and it will find it faster and better than bing. So well in fact that I use it…

I have to log into how many boxes?! — I want you to imagine coming in on a Monday morning, taking that sip of coffee to shake the fog the weekend and see that you have a ticket to check to restart a service for a micro-service running in a cluster. …

The beauty of my job is that I get to be lazy. Not lazy in the sense that I don’t work, but lazy in the since that I get to write scripts to make my job and my co-worker’s job easier. I am currently an automation/devops engineer and I am…