A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
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You often see the initialism SLS. What does it stand for?
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SLS disambiguation
1. Salt State System. SaltStack uses .sls files. “The core of the Salt State system is the SLS, or SaLt State file.” (This quote was taken from this site.)
2. Scheduler Load Simulator (as in YARN SLS). To read more about this,
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What is ChatOps?
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ChatOps is the integration of a chatroom (e.g., Slack, HipChat, etc.) with the controls of an API (e.g., a REST API) to invoke DevOps or systems administration tasks. ChatOps chatrooms allow for text communication in real-time. In a ChatOps chatroom there is a syntax for messages to reboot a server or deploy code. Issuing such commands allows for centralized logging and close communication with many people.
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TLDR: The canonical advice we give job seekers in I.T. is to develop testing-coding skills despite the fact that there are limitations to such artificial tests.
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How should a prospective I.T. employee be assessed? Ostensibly CodeFights, Codebyte, Codility, Coderpad, Devskiller, HackerRank, LeetCode, TestDome, and other coding ability test websites can help job seekers with limited professional experience yet considerable skills and abilities can prove himself or herself.
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Problem scenario
You know of automated software that screens resumes without human oversight. You know your resume could be in a database and later retrieved if key words are matched. You want to customize your resume for the perfect job. The ladders.com says that humans often do not read resumes but robots do. What do you to to tailor your resume for the processes that affect getting an interview?
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What is cargo cult systems engineering?
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Cargo cult systems engineering: vestige stanzas are included in a given configuration file for no functional benefit. Such irrelevant, or environment-inappropriate, stanzas exist either because the systems engineer was not given sufficient time to analyze every line of configuration or because the systems engineer failed to understand why the lines were included in the template (or working system) he/she copied from.
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Problem scenario
You have heard of the immutable bit and want to know how it is different from the sticky bit. What is the immutable bit versus the sticky bit? What are the differences between the two?
Solution
We like the term “immutable flag” as opposed to “immutable bit” to help distinguish the two. We have three parts to explain this.
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How would a DevOps engineer define operational readiness or what is operational readiness in I.T.?
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“All things are ready, if our mind be so.” –William Shakespeare
While some people would say it is more of a state*, others may say it is more of a journey**. Operational readiness is having sufficient staff and automation to maintain the minimum level of service that the business requires for a given product or service.
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In the context of computers, what is telemetry?
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Telemetry in I.T. is the logged system data transmitted from other servers.
A more detailed definition of telemetry is the utilization of a centralized system to automatically ingest log data from other sources to enable one or more of the following: redundant storage of critical log data, monitoring, data visualization,
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How do you prepare for a job interview as a software engineer?
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You may want to go to these pages:
Buy books on technical aspects of coding or one that is geared toward technical questions that may be asked. Here are some options:
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In the context of Linux, what is a system call?
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A system call is a special OS function with a human-readable name (according to page 11 of Sobell’s A Practical Guide to Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux). Such a function allows for programs to interact with the kernel (according to page 11 of Sobell’s A Practical Guide to Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux).
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