SadServers
@sadservers
SadServers.com - Practical Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting
Almost had a heart attack but it's all good, some AI agent at AWS woke up with a sense of humor
New: first SadServers scenario featuring Terraform! Practice your DevOps skills with hands-on challenges sadservers.com/labs/terrafo...
what do you mean my code looks good after only two tries? really suspicious when this happens
What's the difference in #Linux between "df" and "du"? (pretty popular interview question). Practice with a challenge on a real server with this new SadServers scenario "Cordoba": df is lying (or is it du?) sadservers.com/scenario/cor...
New Medium or Hard (not sure? will establish with solve rate) scenario "Sapporo": ephemeral tokens , how do you trap in #Linux quick short events? sadservers.com/scenario/sap...
Sysadmins/DevOps people need to deal also with older tech, not just the latest AI infra ("legacy" = what's making money). New SadServers scenario "Edinburgh": FTP catalog sync failure - loosely based on an issue I had (I remember it more complex but ok) sadservers.com/scenario/edi...
New SadServers scenario "Stockholm": DNS health check issue (paid accounts only since VM needs Internet) sadservers.com/scenario/sto...
How do you check if a #Linux TCP port is open without the usual tools (netstat, ss, nc, curl, nmap, telnet, lsof, tcpdump)? Try it out on a live server with our latest easy scenario "Porto" sadservers.com/scenario/porto
Schrödinger's TUI in Hacker News 😅 (we did both CLI and TUI in the same command)
We love getting feedback. Positive ones encourages us to keep on working and negative ones are often very valuable. Some examples of the latter:
SadServers CLI/TUI is out! (beta version, Pro+ users only for now) docs.sadservers.com/docs/cli-tui/
Cargo-culting random ideas into the company culture can backfire. Trying things and correcting is good of course.
This is getting out of hand and doesn't seem that useful (esp. one company trying to get a standard into robots.txt)
SadServers has crossed the 100 hands-on scenarios mark! And the next two are really special 😀
5xx errors are very rare for us but it's still a nice feature to be able to have crash reports from users thanks to an easy @sentry.io integration 😀
Now SadServers Business users can: - customize scenario times in their interviews - disable Clues/Solution for the candidates - disable the countdown timer - get an alert when the candidate starts a scenario (useful for those using async interviews).
Some people say software is solved because of AI but a multi-billion company chat bot hallucinates about options in their product dashboard...
Scheduled this weekend: new SadServers prices & offerings. -Current Pro users keep their low price & all features. -New Pro+ plan will get new features. Responding to users' feedback: -Introducing a new Business Pay-Per-Use plan. -All subscriptions get bigger yearly discounts.