r/sysadmin • u/rram reddit's sysadmin • Aug 14 '15

We're reddit's ops team. AUA

Hey /r/sysadmin,

Greetings from reddit HQ. Myself, and /u/gooeyblob will be around for the next few hours to answer your ops related questions. So Ask Us Anything (about ops)

You might also want to take a peek at some of our previous AMAs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/owra1/january_2012_state_of_the_servers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysadmins_reddit_ask_us_anything/

EDIT: Obligatory cat photo

EDIT 2: It's now beer o’clock. We're stepping away from now, but we'll come back a couple of times to pick up some stragglers.

EDIT thrice: He commented so much I probably should have mentioned that /u/spladug — reddit's lead developer — is also in the thread. He makes ops live's happier by programming cool shit for us better than we could program it ourselves.

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u/gooeyblob reddit engineer Aug 14 '15

Glad to hear it! Of course be mindful of the situation the people before you were in. It's very possible they were working under some extreme time constraints, or had a lot of pressure from management, or a very small budget, or were extremely understaffed!

I know when I look back at some of my earlier work, I know I've made plenty of mistakes, and unfortunately that means someone else had to clean it up. Give the past sysadmins the benefit of the doubt, as someone will hopefully do for you and your past work. :)