A Slightly Noobish SRE

In light of recent events that occurred during my most recent sprint, I'm going to break my post into two parts. The first will be a wonderful and meaningful story of an aspiring SRE and his triumph over his the industry and part 2 will be my first couple sprints. In case you haven't guessed already, the last part of my first statement might not have been entirely accurate and here's why. Yesterday I committed my code for this weeks sprint and in doing so, managed to kick off a chain of events which eventually went on to completely brick our whole Module. After discovering this and getting hit with a thorough reality check, I spent the next couple hours figuring out what went wrong and how I can prevent it from happening in the future. Part 1 It begins with an improper understanding of code committing "procedures". I say procedures with the quotes because we don't have any actual documented procedures for committing. If they did exist, the procedure wou...

I've been thinking about what I wanted to cover in this post since my initial post last week and it turns out that I have quite a bit to cover for my first "real post". I've decided to do something different. It occurred to me that I should give a quick overview of my life IT. For fun, I'm going to attempt this part using a mix of Powershell and pseudo code. Please keep in mind that this will likely look very shitty as I'm not quite sure how to format code in a blog post. Anyways, here we go.. myCareer.ps1 ################################# ##   Functions ################################# $Me = @(Location="Menomonie, WI", Smart="Yes", Quirk="Horrible ADD", [int]Focus="0",  Motivated="Yes", StartYear="2007", College="No", ITSkills="0") $College = @ (goTo="Yes", withdraw="No") $time = @ ( ) $timeInIT = @ ( ) function badDecisionMaking { if($Me.colleg...