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With 28 new chapters, the third edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration innovates yet again! Revised with thousands of updates and clarifications based on reader feedback, this new edition also incorporates DevOps strategies even for non-DevOps environments.

Whether you use Linux, Unix, or Windows, this new edition describes the essential practices previously handed down only from mentor to protégé. This wonderfully lucid, often funny cornucopia of information introduces beginners to advanced frameworks valuable for their entire career, yet is structured to help even experts through difficult projects.

Other books tell you what commands to type. This book teaches you the cross-platform strategies that are timeless!

DevOps techniques: Apply DevOps principles to enterprise IT infrastructure, even in environments without developers
Game-changing strategies: New ways to deliver results faster with less stress
Fleet management: A comprehensive guide to managing your fleet of desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices
Service management: How to design, launch, upgrade and migrate services
Measurable improvement: Assess your operational effectiveness; a forty-page, pain-free assessment system you can start using today to raise the quality of all services
Design guides: Best practices for networks, data centers, email, storage, monitoring, backups and more
Management skills: Organization design, communication, negotiation, ethics, hiring and firing, and more

Have you ever had any of these problems?

Have you been surprised to discover your backup tapes are blank?
Ever spent a year launching a new service only to be told the users hate it?
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Do you spend more time fixing problems than building the next awesome thing?
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Is there a periodic “hell month” that happens twice a year? Twelve times a year?
Do you find out about problems when your users call you to complain?
Does your corporate “Change Review Board” terrify you?
Does each division of your company have their own broken way of doing things?
Do you fear that automation will replace you, or break more than it fixes?
Are you underpaid and overworked?

No vague “management speak” or empty platitudes. This comprehensive guide provides real solutions that prevent these problems and more.

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Thomas A. Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator with more than twenty years of experience at companies like Google, Bell Labs, and StackOverflow.com.

Christina J. Hogan has more than twenty years of experience in system administration and network engineering, from Silicon Valley to Italy and Switzerland. She has a master’s degree in computer science, a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, and has been part of a Formula 1 racing team.

Strata R. Chalup has more than twenty-five years of experience in Silicon Valley, focusing on IT strategy, best-practices, and scalable infrastructures at firms that include Apple, Sun, Cisco, McAfee, and Palm.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0321919165
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition (November 4, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321919168
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321919168
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.75 x 9.1 inches

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Christina J. Hogan (1970- ) was born in Derbyshire, England, and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She attended Trinity College Dublin, first earning a B.A. in Mathematics, and then an M.Sc. by research in Computer Science. She also earned a diploma in Legal Studies at DIT Rathmines. She worked for more than 10 years as a system administrator, in Dublin, Sicily and California.
She has presented papers at, and been involved in the organization of, a number of USENIX LISA conferences. At one of these conferences, she met Thomas A. Limoncelli, and they agreed to collaborate on a book. In 2001, the result of that work, the first edition of "The Practice of System and Network Administration" was published. In 2005, they jointly received the SAGE Outstanding Achievement award for the book. In 2007 they released the second edition, which was updated and revised with the help of Strata R. Chalup.
In 2003 Christina married Eliot Lear. In 2003 Christina also completed a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College, London. Then she worked as a race car aerodynamicist and a CFD Engineer at the Sauber / BMW Sauber Formula 1 team.
In 2011 she returned to working in system administration, and is now team lead for a group of network engineers at a large global corporation. In 2014, Thomas, Stata and Christina again joined forces to write "The Practice of Cloud System Administration.
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Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator. His best known books include Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). In 2005 he shared the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award with Christine. While at Google he was an SRE for projects such as the web crawler, Blog Search, office IT deployments and The Ganeti project (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti).
He works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. Previously he's worked at small and large companies including Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T. He blogs at http://EverythingSysadmin.com
Outside of work Tom spent years doing grass-roots civil-rights activism both nationally and in his home state of New Jersey.
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Every IT person's "How-To" guide to go by

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This is literally the "How-To" book of IT. I wish I knew this stuff when I was at the early stages of getting into the IT field. I've been in the field now for close to 14 years and I can say with all confidence this is more important than any certification you will get. The lessons learned in this book are priceless. Some things I read in here I literally find myself gaping and face-palming wishing I'd known this when I started it. It delves into every concept of being an IT person from server handling to network concepts to troubleshooting to the fabled 8th layer, which I believe is the true most important layer of them all (users and politics).

As an SA you are going to need skill outside of IT and be able to communicate efficiently with mostly people that have no idea what you're talking about. As an SA you will also need to be able to troubleshoot and document tickets, as well as send and manage emails with different departments, in and outside of IT. As an SA you will need to also work with others and become part of the team. Develop a culture where you're seen as an advocate and not a clerk. This book will help you do all that and then some.

tl;dr - Get this book and read it. It's BIG, but read the table of contents and start where you think you should start.

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The third edition is the perfect, much needed update to the second edition

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This book is a crucial library item for any System or Network Administrator regardless of how many years you have under your belt. I picked up the second edition when I first became a sysadmin and it helped me a lot throughout my career. I was very excited when it was announced that this third edition was coming as the second edition has not aged well. The third edition is the perfect, much needed update to the second edition. This new version is definitely now up-to-date and should hopefully give us another decade of service. I definitely recommend this book for the sysadmin in your life or in your office. I always recommend it to my colleagues as it contains valuable information for your career. In fact, buy a few copies because if you loan this book out, I doubt you'll get it back!

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This is an amazing book and was very excited to see this new ...

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This is an amazing book and was very excited to see this new edition come up. I work in the IT field and wear many hats and this book provides me with guidance to be successful in all areas in IT from service desk to Infrastructure to Web services. IT can be a rough spot for many but this book really sheds some great insight, practical tools, and positive ideas to get through not only through the technical facets, but also what I feel were left out from the OSI model - Layer 8 the political layer. 😀 I admire these authors and the experiences they have shared in this book. Kudos to them and I hope they continue to share more in future editions to come.

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The book to have as a safety net period ...

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Fabulous book the goto for every area that I might get stuck on. I’ve reread sections that I was sure I knew everything that there was to know about them and still I learned something. I’ve been an Admin, an SE, a Designer, and even a CTO but I still refer to this book and now the latest edition of it all the darn time!

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Great book!

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Well written and organized. Many common sense tips and tricks. Anyone, not just system administrators, can benefit from reading this book.

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I buy extra copies to loan to my colleagues

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This book is a great starting place for new system administrators, and also contains valuable information and ways to think about problems for senior system administrators. I own the first edition, and the third edition is full of more new things, but equally accessible and easy to read. Start with any chapter and you can learn something useful, or read it front to back for a wholistic view. I am the interrupt sponge (see p10) for my team, but I use this book as a resource for teaching and mentoring.

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A great read for all sysadmins

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Thomas's series of the Practice of System and Network administrstion is the essential guide to both new and experienced system administrators who want to do better at their jobs. This book consists of practical advice to get through the daily grind. Thumbs up!

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Half motivational, half technical, all good. One of the best books I've read about admin mojo in a while.

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James

Totally comprehensive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 5, 2019

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A good balance between the technical and management aspects of SA, with a clear focus on efficiency. A good read!

Nucky Delgado

Must read for every sysadmin.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 3, 2018

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It teaches lessons through real life experiences (mostly hassles), which need not to be happening to you if you have the knowledge.

Sean Dalziel

The book for working as a Technology Administrator in any workplace

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 20, 2022

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This book is not technical and all of the advice provided can be started-off with office supplies instead of software technology then migrated into software later.

Each chapter includes exercises and questions to help the reader think about their role and how their organization and department can be streamlined, improved, and made more useful.

Each section and chapter is also progressive and builds. Where an experienced professional can jump to any section and receive a helpful read a cover-to-cover read is also beneficial as an exercise in career development.

I do recommend this book to every person frustrated with their role, their IT department, or their management. The last is not a good person to send this book to, they may have their feelings hurt.

This may be a good book to send to your management if they can handle having their ego bruised and are willing to receive a new outlook on technology management.

D. Pettitt

A classic. So happy to finally have it on my shelf.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 24, 2017

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I'd read bits and pieces of the 2nd edition. Haven't fully read this 3rd edition, but I've skimmed through it, and read a few individual chapters in detail. They've definitely updated and added some good material to reflect developments in the IT world since the last edition, but the overall package is a good reminder that the fundamental principles haven't really changed.

Nick

Excellent book for new and experienced SysAdmins

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 18, 2020

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I'm not a proffesional S.A. but it'S my responsability to maintain our small office network. Wish I had bought this book before, it would have saved me a lot of time. It is well written, covers all aspects of being a system administrator. The fact that it covers concepts means it will still be relevant years from now.
Highly recommend it!

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