A Day in the Life of a Senior Linux Admin & Infrastructure ArchitectFollow along with one industry expert as he confronts the daily challenges that arise from various Linux implementations and infrastructure development opportunities within his company. With several years experience, this Senior Linux Admin & Infrastructure Architect is able to share unique insights and report on helpful solutions and tools to enhance your efforts on-the-job.Challenges- May 23, 2004 I've been burned. Worst of all, I did it to myself. So, we've put this new application in. All singing and dancing - it's the first big project I've been involved with where I did the Infrastructure Architecture. In summary, if you only really learn from your mistakes then I've done a lot of on-the-job-learning in the last few months. The biggest, broadest lesson is "Challenge your Assumptions". I should have gone to great efforts to think very carefully about where I was working on assumehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/malach/challenge... Managing 'your' time, when you have 200+ hours a week to watch- May 8, 2004 When you're leading a team, you're organising a lot more than 40 hours a week. You're also organising entities which aren't as communicative as your internal systems are. You need some sort of todo list system, you need you personal time management systems up to scratch, and you need to expand how you use them to cover your team. I'm not saying you need to manage time for the whole team like you do for yourself, but you do need to know what you've aked people to do, when you've asked them tohttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/malach/managing-... |