Griff Barker

Husband, systems engineer, pretend blogger, all-around-nerd, Corgi haver, player of badminton and racquetball. The code I write almost usually works. #PowerShell #SystemsEngineering #IT #DataPrivacy 🔗 https://griff.systems/ Statements are my own.

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tuning the deadband

There are two problems that many IT folks will have in their career: In this post, I want to chat about the basics of building effective monitoring in terms of defining problems and recoveries. We're …

May 12·1 min read·92 words

waving goodbye to windows - part 1

Okay, so the title might be a little misleading. I waved goodbye to Windows in favor of Linux (obligatory "I use Arch, btw") some time ago. Given that my personal laptop's hardware was of the 2016 era…

Mar 12·1 min read·99 words

plain text power moves

Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a comma…

Mar 12·1 min read·91 words