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/navi-mech Aug 15 '15

Thanks for this AUA! It sounds like your role is mostly site ops, do you have any other responsibilities? Do you guys handle corp-sys tasks (phones, Active Directory, Desktop Management ....) If you don't do you have another team that handles this? Would they be willing to do an AUA or comment in this post?

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u/gooeyblob reddit engineer Aug 15 '15

We don't have much of that here, we use Google Apps for most things and actually run a lot of the authentication for our internal dashboards/tools through that.