The three laws of the SysAdmin
“Because, if you stop to think of it, the three laws of robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many of the world’s ethical systems. [...] To put it simply, if Byerley follows all the laws of robotics, he may be a robot, or may simply be a very good man.”
Dr. Susan Calvin in Evidence from Isaac Asimov
For more than 20 years, I was a SysAdmin for different companies. In those years, some young people asked me what the best practices were and if could they apply them to consider themselves a good SysAdmin. Over the years, I have read different articles about these best practices: Ethics Code for SysAdmins, The 10 Commandments of the SysAdmin, and even Fundamental Laws of Computing.
This job of becoming a platform SysAdmin is an arduous task that becomes complicated if we don’t get into the habit of applying best practices. But where do you learn them? Where are they written down?
One of the best philosophies...
