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Jack Neely's LinuxCzar articles on software engineering, Linux, SRE, monitoring, observability, and open-source projects.

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Let's Talk: AWS October Outage and AI Observability #Linux #Observability #Cloud
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Oct 29, 2025
Resume #Linux #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource
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Oct 8, 2025
Cardinality Cloud and Prometheus SLOs #Linux #Observability #CloudNative
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Oct 7, 2025
Links #Linux #OpenSource #Tech
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Oct 7, 2025
Monitorama PDX 2023: Finding Π in Observability #Observability #Linux #Tech
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Jul 1, 2023
About #Linux #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering
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Jul 1, 2023
Logging and Eventing with the SEARCH Method #Linux #Observability #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 9, 2022
Prometheus Exemplars in Java Spring Boot #Java #SpringBoot #Prometheus
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Jan 17, 2022
What Is Observability: A Practitioner's View #Observability #SRE #Tech
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Oct 24, 2021
Writing Change Management Announcements #Sysadmin #ChangeManagement #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 23, 2021
Twisted Edwards Curve SSH Keys #Linux #OpenSource #Security
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Aug 12, 2021
Helm Chart Prometheus Rules #Linux #DevOps #Kubernetes
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Aug 6, 2021
Thinking About Keyboards, Part The Second #Keyboards #Hardware #Tech
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May 30, 2021
Rules of a System Administrator #Sysadmin #Linux #DevOps
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May 30, 2021
AWS Kinesis Outage #Cloud #AWS #Outage
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Dec 7, 2020
Finding the Golden Signals with Prometheus #Linux #Monitoring #OpenSource
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Nov 28, 2020
42 Lines Site Reliability Engineering #SRE #Linux #DevOps
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Nov 1, 2020
Quick and Dirty Sockets #Linux #Unix #Networking
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Aug 23, 2020
Calculating the Error of Quantile Estimation with Histograms #DataScience #Statistics #Algorithms
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Aug 13, 2020
SRE: How to Count With Logs #SRE #Observability #Linux
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Jul 30, 2020
What is a Site Reliability Engineer? #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #DevOps
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Jul 1, 2020
Open Observability: SRE Prometheus Tips #OpenSource #SRE #Observability
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Jun 25, 2020
A Site Reliability Engineer Series #SRE #SiteReliability #DevOps
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Jun 24, 2020
Prometheus Histograms Part 3: Using Something Else #Prometheus #Monitoring #OpenSource
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Oct 28, 2019
TriLUG: Observability Through the Lenses of Metrics and Events #Observability #Metrics #Events
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Sep 12, 2019
Notes on TSDBs #Linux #OpenSource #Tech
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Aug 20, 2019
Prometheus Alertmanager and Incident Keys #Linux #Observability #DevOps
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Jun 11, 2019
Monitorama PDX 2019: 5 Neat Tricks with Prometheus #Prometheus #Monitoring #DevOps
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Jun 5, 2019
Thanos and External Labels #Linux #Observability #OpenSource
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May 27, 2019
Generate Test Prometheus TSDB Data #Prometheus #DevOps #Monitoring
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Mar 13, 2019
Writing Documentation #Documentation #Sysadmin #Writing
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Feb 17, 2019
Retro Thinking #RetroComputing #SoftwareEngineering #Linux
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Feb 17, 2019
Moving to ZFS from Btrfs #Linux #OpenSource #Storage
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Jul 9, 2018
How FreeBSD Secretly Won Open Source #FreeBSD #OpenSource #Linux
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Jun 23, 2018
Interview Questions for System Administrators #Linux #SysAdmin #TechJobs
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Nov 3, 2017
Histograms with Prometheus: A Tale of Woe #Monitoring #Observability #Prometheus
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Jun 15, 2017
Tenets of Microservice Monitoring #Linux #Observability #SoftwareEngineering
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May 28, 2017
Algorithms: Conflict Free Replicated Data Types #Algorithms #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 8, 2017
Prometheus and Histograms #Linux #Observability #OpenSource
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Dec 31, 2016
Bandwidth Delay Product and TCP Tuning #Linux #Networking #Tech
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Sep 18, 2016