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Articles and publications tagged Systems-engineering across the Atmosphere.

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griff
griffMay 12, 2026
tuning the deadband
There are two problems that many IT folks will have in their career: In this post, I want to chat about the basics of building effective monitoring in terms of defining problems and recoveries. We're monitoring servers and databases and network switches and whatnot, duh! Well, if only it were that simple. Every node we monitor is going to have different items we can monitor, and before we build a monitor, we need to understand what type of data it is that we are wanting to monitor. Generally, th...
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griff
griffMar 12, 2026
plain text power moves
Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a command line interface. I'm here to talk about plain text power moves, but not in that sense. I want to talk about a few of my favorite daily tools that I rely upon as a systems engineer but don't often think much about, and how they make a difference. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allow...
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