The Sysadmin's Gentleman’s Kit

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Practical examples of sysadmin workflows and production practices used at Badoo, showing how to automate resource-heavy operations to make them simple. Covers concrete automation techniques and processes for managing production systems.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:51Admin as main person
3. 3:39Context switching problem
4. 8:15Solving context switching
5. 14:10Task prioritization
6. 16:02Daytime duty admin
7. 18:57Transparent team processes
8. 27:58Daily status tool
9. 37:52Infrastructure setup
10. 40:21Q&A

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