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The First Commandment Of IT
Debugging Devops Windows Programming Linux
8 hours ago 65.2K views 0 shares
The First Commandment Of IT
Homer Simpson ripping out a "Free IT Advice" sign to reveal the sacred commandment of tech: "IF IT WORKS, DON'T TOUCH IT." This isn't just advice—it's the unspoken religion of every production environment. That mystical code that ran fine for 7 years? Written by a dev who left the company in 2015? Deployed on a server no one remembers the password to? Yeah, nobody's volunteering to "refactor" that bad boy. We just light candles and pray it continues working until retirement.

It's Always DNS
Networking Devops Programming Linux Debugging
2 days ago 64.4K views 0 shares
It's Always DNS
The eternal IT support battle in five acts: Angry admin: "THIS IS NOT A DNS ISSUE!" Smug dev: "I CAN PING 8.8.8.8" (Google's DNS server, the universal "is my internet working?" test) Admin, veins popping: "THEN YOUR INTERNET WORKS!" Dev, confused: "I CAN'T PING GOOGLE.COM" Admin, having a stroke: "STOP BLAMING DNS FOR YOUR PROBLEMS" Narrator: It was, in fact, a DNS issue.

Anyone Ever Have To Migrate Services To The Cloud
Backend Devops AWS Azure Gcp
6 days ago 108.1K views 0 shares
Anyone Ever Have To Migrate Services To The Cloud
Cloud migration in a nutshell: Backend service owners clutching their precious code like a hairless cat hoarding gold coins, while completely ignoring those pesky validation steps scattered on the table. "But it works on my machine!" they hiss, as the DevOps team sighs for the 47th time today. The validation steps might as well be invisible—just like documentation and proper error handling. Who needs testing when you've got blind faith and a prayer to the server gods?

It Works On My Local Container
Devops Docker Programming Debugging Backend
8 days ago 78.0K views 0 shares
It Works On My Local Container
Evolution of excuses. Left panel: Developer proudly proclaims "It works on my machine!" while the ops guy silently contemplates career choices. Right panel: Same developer, now with DevOps skills and a suspicious sunburn, declares "It works on my container!" The ops guy's expression remains unchanged – he knows containerized garbage is still garbage, just more portable. We've successfully moved the problem from one isolated environment to another, slightly fancier isolated environment. Progress!

There Are Four Rules Now
AWS Devops Programming Backend Cloud
10 days ago 77.0K views 0 shares
There Are Four Rules Now
DARLING, SWEETIE, HONEY! The SRE just found the ultimate money-burning hack! 🔥💸 Spend $100M in a month? CHILD'S PLAY when you unleash the apocalyptic billing nightmare that is AWS! One forgotten test instance and BOOM - your cloud bill looks like the GDP of a small nation! The genie's face when realizing AWS exists is the EXACT same expression your finance team makes when they see your "small prototype" somehow cost more than your annual salary. The fourth rule was INEVITABLE, darling!

Blood, Crips, And Database Connections
Networking Programming Databases Backend Cloud
13 days ago 83.1K views 0 shares
Blood, Crips, And Database Connections
The eternal architectural gang war nobody asked for. Left side: P2P, where every device thinks it's special and talks to everyone else like some distributed democracy experiment. Right side: Client-Server, the digital feudal system where one database rules them all and the peasant clients just have to deal with it. Sure, P2P is resilient when the apocalypse hits, but good luck finding that one file when half the network is asleep. Meanwhile, Client-Server has a single point of failure that keeps sysadmins awake at night, but at least you know exactly who to blame when everything crashes.

The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
15 days ago 75.8K views 0 shares
The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
That sacred pre-vacation ritual where you desperately pray to the server gods that nothing explodes while you're gone. Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like frantically patting server racks and whispering "please don't die" to infrastructure that's held together by duct tape and Stack Overflow answers. The true holiday miracle is making it to January without getting that 3 AM call about the production database deciding to spontaneously combust while you're trying to enjoy your eggnog.

The Frontend-Backend Reality Check
Backend Webdev Javascript Programming Databases
15 days ago 65.7K views 0 shares
The Frontend-Backend Reality Check
Frontend: a neat row of polished reaction buttons that users click without a second thought. Backend: absolute chaos of tiny creatures frantically running around, sweating, electrocuted, and desperately trying to process each reaction in real-time. That one-pixel-perfect button your designer insisted on? Yeah, it's powered by a poor backend dev having an existential crisis while juggling database transactions at 3 AM. Meanwhile, the frontend dev is already at happy hour showing off the "clean UI."

In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
16 days ago 77.4K views 0 shares
In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
The eternal struggle between management and sysadmins, narrated in the grim tones of Werner Herzog. While executives demand explanations in their cubicle kingdom, the battle-hardened sysadmins are just trying to keep the digital house of cards from collapsing. They're not solving problems—they're performing digital triage. The truth? Most IT infrastructure is held together with duct tape, prayers, and that one Perl script written by a guy who left in 2011. Nobody touches the production server because nobody knows what will break if they do. It's not incompetence; it's survival.

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
AWS Devops Programming Cloud
16 days ago 83.4K views 0 shares
Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
The ultimate cheat code for burning through money: Amazon Web Services! 💸 Anyone who's ever received an unexpected AWS bill knows the pain. You spin up an EC2 instance thinking "I'll just test this quickly" and suddenly your credit card is sobbing in the corner. The SRE in this joke knows that AWS could easily burn through $100M without breaking a sweat – no gambling or frivolous spending required! The genie adding a fourth rule is basically saying, "Nice try, smartypants. I'm not falling for that cloud computing money pit."

Emergency Supply Kit
Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging
18 days ago 83.0K views 0 shares
Emergency Supply Kit
The true essence of network administration distilled into a single container: cigarettes and a "GOOD LUCK!" note. Because when the entire company's VPN goes down at 2PM on a Friday, or someone accidentally runs rm -rf on a production server, or the CEO can't connect to WiFi during a board meeting—nicotine and blind optimism are your only reliable protocols. The cigarettes aren't for smoking; they're for bartering with the server gods who clearly hate you today. Network admins don't need fancy disaster recovery plans—just chemical coping mechanisms and the crushing acceptance that DNS is probably lying to you again.

Stop Setting Static IP Addresses In DHCP Range
Networking Devops Windows Linux Debugging
18 days ago 74.1K views 0 shares
Stop Setting Static IP Addresses In DHCP Range
The networking equivalent of watching someone park in a reserved spot. That brave soul is fighting the good fight against the network admins who've spent hours debugging why devices keep dropping off the network, only to discover some rogue developer assigned themselves 192.168.1.100 because "it's easier to remember." Nothing like the sweet chaos of two devices fighting over the same IP while DHCP watches helplessly from the sidelines. The real network troubleshooting drinking game: take a shot every time someone says "but it was working yesterday!"