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Job interviews are going to end up with on-site only option and maybe KYC software for remote (thread suggests asking candidate to hold their ID to the camera for ex)
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Job interviews are going to end up with on-site only option and maybe KYC software for remote (thread suggests asking candidate to hold their ID to the camera for ex)
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
Great article about game design. Interestingly, SadServers fulfills many of the ideal characteristics of a game: Fun, Problem and Toys, Prediction and uncertainty, loops, feedback, Variation and escalation ... www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…
www.raphkoster.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Great article about game design. Interestingly, SadServers fulfills many of the ideal characteristics of a game: Fun, Problem and Toys, Prediction and uncertainty, loops, feedback, Variation and escalation ... www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
"One crucial skill that often gets overlooked is operational reflexes during oncalls. Surprisingly, few companies test for this, yet it’s a capability that greatly distinguishes engineers."
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Operational Skills Needed
Engineering interviews should have operational interview bits such as incident scenarios, system monitoring and alerting and Post-Mortem Analysis
yusufaytas.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"One crucial skill that often gets overlooked is operational reflexes during oncalls. Surprisingly, few companies test for this, yet it’s a capability that greatly distinguishes engineers."
yusufaytas.com/operational-...
yusufaytas.com/operational-...
New easy SadServers scenario "Cairo" with a Linux problem involving a systemd timer (the replacement of "cron"), how fast can you solve it? sadservers.com/scenario/cairo
SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
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November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New easy SadServers scenario "Cairo" with a Linux problem involving a systemd timer (the replacement of "cron"), how fast can you solve it? sadservers.com/scenario/cairo
"AI broke interviews" article & HN discussion. Don't know where this is going but it looks like lose-lose MAD news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...
AI Broke Interviews | Hacker News
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November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"AI broke interviews" article & HN discussion. Don't know where this is going but it looks like lose-lose MAD news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...
What application/tool would you like featured in a SadServers scenario that we don't have yet? (eg: Mongodb, Clickhouse, Traefik)
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What application/tool would you like featured in a SadServers scenario that we don't have yet? (eg: Mongodb, Clickhouse, Traefik)
New SadServers scenario "Cabedelo" , this is a hard challenge involving building and pushing a Docker image to Harbor but there are several issues.
Can you find and fix all of them before the time runs out? Practice troubleshooting on a real server: sadservers.com/scenario/cab...
Can you find and fix all of them before the time runs out? Practice troubleshooting on a real server: sadservers.com/scenario/cab...
SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews
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October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New SadServers scenario "Cabedelo" , this is a hard challenge involving building and pushing a Docker image to Harbor but there are several issues.
Can you find and fix all of them before the time runs out? Practice troubleshooting on a real server: sadservers.com/scenario/cab...
Can you find and fix all of them before the time runs out? Practice troubleshooting on a real server: sadservers.com/scenario/cab...
New SadServers scenario Kilifi, a Medium-Hard Helm and Kubernetes challenge sadservers.com/scenario/kil...
Test your K8s knowledge and troubleshooting skills in this practical lab, free for a limited time!
Test your K8s knowledge and troubleshooting skills in this practical lab, free for a limited time!
SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
sadservers.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New SadServers scenario Kilifi, a Medium-Hard Helm and Kubernetes challenge sadservers.com/scenario/kil...
Test your K8s knowledge and troubleshooting skills in this practical lab, free for a limited time!
Test your K8s knowledge and troubleshooting skills in this practical lab, free for a limited time!
New #Kubernetes / Helm scenario "Tigoni" (Medium-Hard to Hard): an app upgrade fails, lots of good troubleshooting needed to solve this one!
sadservers.com/scenario/tig...
Try it out for free for a limited time
sadservers.com/scenario/tig...
Try it out for free for a limited time
SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
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October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New #Kubernetes / Helm scenario "Tigoni" (Medium-Hard to Hard): an app upgrade fails, lots of good troubleshooting needed to solve this one!
sadservers.com/scenario/tig...
Try it out for free for a limited time
sadservers.com/scenario/tig...
Try it out for free for a limited time
the fact that there's such a thing as "FinOps" says a lot about the prices cloud services 🤔
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
the fact that there's such a thing as "FinOps" says a lot about the prices cloud services 🤔
New free SadServers scenario "Nuuk" with an SSH issue: sadservers.com/scenario/nuuk
How long will it take you to figure out?
How long will it take you to figure out?
SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
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October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New free SadServers scenario "Nuuk" with an SSH issue: sadservers.com/scenario/nuuk
How long will it take you to figure out?
How long will it take you to figure out?
RTO: bosses want to see butts on chairs, companies want to justify their office rent, cities want workers to spend lunch money downtown but other than some vague "culture" / "random convos" where are the studies showing lower productivity working remote? tinyurl.com/yc2cydee
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” - One Workforce Hub
The case for remote work stands on four years of data and clear gains in daily life. Results hold as teams adapt, because leadership ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
RTO: bosses want to see butts on chairs, companies want to justify their office rent, cities want workers to spend lunch money downtown but other than some vague "culture" / "random convos" where are the studies showing lower productivity working remote? tinyurl.com/yc2cydee
SadServers is (mostly) hosted in AWS but we were not affected by the outage in us-east-1 because we use the brilliant strategy of being in us-east-2 for this exact reason (second time we post something like this)
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
SadServers is (mostly) hosted in AWS but we were not affected by the outage in us-east-1 because we use the brilliant strategy of being in us-east-2 for this exact reason (second time we post something like this)
Pretty crazy that after Google, the biggest traffic referrer for SadServers is not social media, LinkedIn etc but ... GitHub repositories. Street cred 💪😁
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Pretty crazy that after Google, the biggest traffic referrer for SadServers is not social media, LinkedIn etc but ... GitHub repositories. Street cred 💪😁
Job applicants have enough stress to be on the lookout for job scams and getting malware 😠https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview ,
kaveh.page/blog/job-int...
kaveh.page/blog/job-int...
Anatomy of a Job Interview Scam | Kaveh's Blog
This is the story of a sophisticated job interview scam that happened to me via LinkedIn using social engineering and a heavily obfuscated clipboard hijacking to push a malicious payload.
kaveh.page
October 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Job applicants have enough stress to be on the lookout for job scams and getting malware 😠https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview ,
kaveh.page/blog/job-int...
kaveh.page/blog/job-int...
Destroy and Deploy: the Joys of Immutability , new SadServers blog post docs.sadservers.com/blog/destroy...
Destroy and Deploy: the Joys of Immutability
Brought to you by SadServers – Hands-On Linux & DevOps; Real Challenges. Real Infra. Real Skills.
Sysadmin Friend: “Hey, look, my application server in production has an uptime of over a thousand day...
docs.sadservers.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Destroy and Deploy: the Joys of Immutability , new SadServers blog post docs.sadservers.com/blog/destroy...
Yes please, let's add examples to technical documentation rakhim.exotext.com/examples-are...
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
rakhim.exotext.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Yes please, let's add examples to technical documentation rakhim.exotext.com/examples-are...
New Hard SadServers scenario "Amygdala": Do you have enough insight to see the secrets? sadservers.com/scenario/amy... this is a fun #kubernetes and Hashicorp Vault scenario
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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New Hard SadServers scenario "Amygdala": Do you have enough insight to see the secrets? sadservers.com/scenario/amy... this is a fun #kubernetes and Hashicorp Vault scenario
Test Your Infrastructure with Game Days docs.sadservers.com/blog/test-yo...
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Test Your Infrastructure with Game Days docs.sadservers.com/blog/test-yo...
This is a great example of somebody adquiring a skill (chess in this case, could be a new language etc):
- drilling the basics with practical examples
- using different learning channels
- doing introspection (self-evaluations)
- trying different things
www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/s...
- drilling the basics with practical examples
- using different learning channels
- doing introspection (self-evaluations)
- trying different things
www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/s...
From the Chesscom community on Reddit: From 1600 to 2200 Blitz in 3 Months! How I did it without a Coach.
Explore this post and more from the Chesscom community
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October 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is a great example of somebody adquiring a skill (chess in this case, could be a new language etc):
- drilling the basics with practical examples
- using different learning channels
- doing introspection (self-evaluations)
- trying different things
www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/s...
- drilling the basics with practical examples
- using different learning channels
- doing introspection (self-evaluations)
- trying different things
www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/s...
If you want to run your own cloud file storage, you better have a backup offsite your data centre koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...
NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available
A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...
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October 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you want to run your own cloud file storage, you better have a backup offsite your data centre koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...
don't ssh (routinely) into production! docs.sadservers.com/blog/dont-ss...
Don't SSH into Production
This article was published in the book 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know by O’Reilly.
(I’m very aware of the apparent contradiction of publishing this in SadServers, a service based - so far ...
docs.sadservers.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
don't ssh (routinely) into production! docs.sadservers.com/blog/dont-ss...
New #linux medium-hard SadServers scenario "Bondo": Split my pile! sadservers.com/scenario/bondo investigate why a program crashes and fix it
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October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New #linux medium-hard SadServers scenario "Bondo": Split my pile! sadservers.com/scenario/bondo investigate why a program crashes and fix it
There are brilliant junior engineers, the problem is how to find them workweave.dev/blog/hiring-...
Hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry - Weave - X-ray vision for engineering teams
Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work.
workweave.dev
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
There are brilliant junior engineers, the problem is how to find them workweave.dev/blog/hiring-...