System Administration Skills for Developers

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In many small companies it is difficult to justify hiring a dedicated System Administrator. But in todays world every company has a need for System Administration skills. These tasks often fall to developers, as they are closest to the technology that needs maintaining.
This talk aims to give these developers a smattering of tasks they should be doing, and techniques to achieve them. Techniques will focus on Linux based systems, but the concepts are platform agnostic.

Stream: Tools

Paper: System Administration Skills for Developers

Since being introduced to Linux in 1996 Geoff Crompton has had a passion for fiddling with it. This has led him to a position as System Administrator for Strategic Data, a company that builds it's success by using Open Source tools. Geoff can frequently be seen trying to master any sort of bicycle (or unicycle).