So you don't have a sysadmin yet...
*Excerpt
Many startups underestimate the importance of a systems administrator very early on in the company's development. But maybe you're just not there yet. If you don't have a sysadmin, what is the minimum you should know to squeeze by in the meantime?
Description
Many startups underestimate the importance of a systems administrator very early on in the company’s development. This person not only can make sure your systems are up, but can create the policies and toolsets that your developers, and even your non-techies, will use from the start, avoiding a whole bag of pain and woe down the road when your ad-hoc systems become untenable.
But maybe you’re just not there yet. If you don’t have a sysadmin, what is the minimum you should know to squeeze by in the meantime?
- What are the “hot spots” on a web server that are going to need attention?
- What are some good ways to protect yourself against data loss?
- What are some easy things you can do to avoid getting hacked?
- How should you go about finding a sysadmin when the time is right?
- What kinds of things should they be working on when they get started?
Tags
systems administration, sysadmin, business, startups, developers, systems
Speaking experience
Speaker
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Justin Miller
Code Sorcery Workshop, LLC- Website: http://codesorcery.net/
- Twitter: incanus77
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Biography
Justin Miller is the founder and principal of Code Sorcery Workshop, a Portland-based company that provides solutions that live on the web using server technologies, on your Mac using desktop software, and in your pocket with the iPhone and iPad.
On the server side, Justin specializes in a “whole stack” approach — hardware provisioning to server operating system administration to web application development to performance tuning.
On the client side, Justin has been programming for the Apple Mac OS X desktop platform for over six years and with Apple’s iOS platform since its public inception in 2008.
Justin has been developing and administering internet technologies for nearly fifteen years. Following undergraduate work in Engineering and Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Justin’s professional career spanned three startups in New York State’s Tech Valley, datacenter work in New York City, and political and non-profit work in Washington before launching freelance and consulting services, eventually relocating to Portland, Oregon, where he resides currently.