CS615 System Administration, Week 01, Segment 03 - SysAdmin Core Principles and Rules
Channel: cs615asa
Date: 2021-01-24

In this video, we present a few core principles that will guide us throughout the semester. We'll also get to know a few basic "laws", well known by any System Administrator. If you're wondering what all this has to do with Legos, please tune in...

Slides for this lecture: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/01-rules.pdf
Course Website: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/

Outline:
00:00 Introduction
02:14 Scalability
04:59 Security
07:20 Simplicity
10:09 Occam's Razor
10:34 2nd Law Of Thermodynamics
11:15 Hanlon's Razor
12:10 Pareto's Principle
13:08 Sturgeon's Law
13:55 Murphy's Law
14:47 Causality
15:55 What's Next