Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #21: The Great Compute Divide When Big Tech Buys the GPUs and You’re Left With a Raspberry Pi

We asked some heavy questions in last week’s SysAdmin Weekly newsletter > “What happens when access to high-performance compute becomes a subscription privilege instead of an owned capability?”

#ai #aws #azure

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A little bit of #Kubernetes al a #K3s to start a Saturday morning. Getting ready to down a node for installation of a GPU for hosted LLM workloads. What is the weekend #homelab project for you this week?

29 years…… and I remember playing Mario kart on the SNES. Now I feel ancient 🤣

DM seems a bit.....much? lol - Haters gonna hate I guess. Regardless of the games played and discussed you put yourself out there and created something. That's more than most people do. Keep up the good work!

I feel the pain LOL

SysAdmin Weekly #18: Craft, Shovelware, and the Cost of "Good Enough" Why modern software keeps failing operators and why SysAdmins pay the price

Software didn’t suddenly get more complex it just got more careless. In this week's edition of SysAdmin Weekly I’m digging into “craft vs. shovelware,” and why SysAdmins keep absorbing the blast radius of “good enough” software.

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#SysAdmin #ITOps #SoftwareQuality

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Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Follow our updates here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

There we have it - seen lots of reports of VPN appliances getting orgs owned over the last few years, but now At-Bay gives us the stats. www.at-bay.com/2025-insurse...

I've said it once, and I'll say it again..... It's ALWAYS DNS....

"What could possibly go wrong?".... I find myself saying this entirely WAY to often these days.... 😑

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How to contribute to this blog Everyone’s voice matters! We want to publish your content on all things you build with code, low-code, no-code on and around Microsoft 365.

✨💻✍Did you know that you can contribute to the #Microsoft365 platform community blog? We want your posts about how you extend Microsoft 365 - regardless if you are doing this code-first or low-code!

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SysAdmin Weekly #13: Former Best Practices, New Headaches Vendors keep moving the goalposts! From VMware licensing chaos to Entra ID shifts, here’s how SysAdmins adapt (and stay sane).

"Best practices” are just guidelines vendors erase when you’re not looking. This week’s SysAdmin Weekly: Broadcom nukes VMware licensing, Hyper-V management drama, Linux stress-testing revival, and security hits (RDP scans + Android malware).

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SysAdmin Weekly - 015 - The Art of Troubleshooting In Tech YouTube video by SysAdmin Weekly

Troubleshooting in IT is more than skill, it’s art. We break down decades of hard-learned lessons on this week’s SysAdmin Weekly podcast. 🎧

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#SysAdmin #ITPro #Troubleshooting

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Random Friday evening thoughts……. You guys remember NFTs? The craze, how it was gonna be the next BIG web 3 thing?

Happy SysAdmin Day

Be nice to your SysAdmin today!

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New week, new issue..... SysAdmin Weekly #9 is out now!

This one’s all about the hidden work that keeps it all running.

Inside: 🔒 firewalls, 🛠️ PingPlotter, 🎙️ Hyper-V debates, and some AMAZING community posts!

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#SysAdmin #IncidentResponse #ITPro

@ejsiron.bsky.social drops a LOT of useful nuggets of enterprise IT admin-ing in this episode! Highly recommended!

New SysAdmin Weekly is live!

How do you prove your value before your boss starts “right-sizing” the org?

We’re tackling the visibility paradox of IT. Why being great at your job means no one notices, and how to fix that!

Episode here > www.sysadminweekly.com

#sysadmin #techlayoffs #itcareers

SysAdmin Weekly #8: Security by Default? Still Optional... Apparently. Patch madness, identity attacks, and a bonus Markdown template for postmortems. Just another week in the trenches!

130 patches. Fortinet RCE exploit. CitrixBleed 2? Active in the wild. Another SysAdmin Week!

This week's SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter:
– SaaS kill chains
– Terraform + Copilot
– DNS basics
– Free Markdown postmortem template

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#sysadmin #infosec #devops #terraform

Cable-linked game boys do indeed feel like both deep magic and 3000 years ago lol

SysAdmin Weekly #7 Capes Optional, Tools Required: From Bicep to Bash, SysAdmins wielding the right tools (and a little forgiveness)

Agentic AI, PowerShell, and Linux on a Dreamcast?!
Issue #7 of SysAdmin Weekly dives into DevOps with AI, Bicep’s new local deploy, CitrixBleed 2, and a Reddit thread that’ll restore your faith in the SysAdmin community.
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SysAdmin Weekly #6 Balancing Uptime and Existential Dread Since........Forever

💻 New SysAdmin Weekly out now! Hyper-V in Server 2025, Azure Arc Gateway, AI's impact on NetEng, and why it’s totally OK to like Light Mode - open.substack.com/pub/sysadmin... - #SysAdmin #TechNews #Cybersecurity

SysAdmin Weekly #5 Yes, You Still Have to Learn Stuff. No, It’s Not Optional....

SysAdmin Weekly #5 is out now. From mental health in IT to Azure toolkits, hiring in the age of AI, and more! This one hits hard. Full edition here > newsletter.sysadminweekly.com/p/sysadmin-w... - #SysAdmin #Azure #ITPros

An Apple Studio Display wearing an infinity gauntlet saying "I am inevitable" Thanos-Style

So the external monitor is finally flaking out it seems. I've been shopping around and I REALLY don't want to pay the Apple "Tax", but, man, the Studio Display seems to be the only monitor I can find that fits all my criteria. Been eyeballing it for awhile, seems inevitable at this stage. #SysAdmin

AI tools are helping candidates beat AI recruiters—welcome to the “AI vs AI” era of job hunting.

This week’s #CollabTalk Podcast explores how candidates are gaming the system, where fairness is at risk, and what hiring will look like in the near future.
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How long have you been using Linux?

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Dating myself a bit here, but Linux and I go all the way back to Debian (Woody) aka version 3.0 - I've used it on and off since then and there are still days where I feel like I'm still stumbling through man pages for that one parameter I forgot the syntax for.... =D