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Hello everyone, I am looking to pivot to AI engineering and currently exploring roadmaps to get in the industry. I stumbled upon this Medium article sharing a 4-step roadmap to AI Engineering. https://medium.com/@anubhavgoyal101/c80bd754c753 To the AI engineers out there. Is this an ideal roadmap? submitted by /u/robgparedes [link] [comments]

I’ve noticed that many AWS environments become increasingly expensive over time, and I’ve seen this firsthand as well. One thing that helped was implementing cost allocation tags to better understand where the spending was coming from. What other practices, tools, or strategies have worked well for keeping AWS costs under control? submitted by /u/yashashp [link] [comments]

One of our clients wants to build a commercial web application on Red Hat JBoss and isn’t interested in moving to microservices or Kubernetes. We explained the potential benefits of modern architectures, but based on their previous experience, they still prefer a traditional JBoss-based approach. The application is expected to handle a large number of users on a daily basis. For those with experience running JBoss in production, how would you approach this? Is JBoss alone still a solid choice for a high-traffic system, and what challenges should be considered? submitted by /u/yashashp [link] [comments]

Hi All, Not really a SysAdmin question but I’m sure there are people in here with a solution. We are rolling our Claude and Cowork (and code) but have run into a few incidents where the cowork data couldn’t be opened by Claude (for whatever reason). Has anyone got a working solution to this? I have several CEOs breathing down my neck because they lost a week or two worth of data. Any help is appreciated! submitted by /u/Flashy-Departure-445 [link] [comments]

I’ve tried searching but haven’t gotten any conclusive answers. Medium enterprise environment with about 60 MFPs at the primary site and 3-4 at 200+ satellite locations. Currently we use AD LDAP to provide a GAL for printers for end users. But we’ve been moving most things to M365 native instead of hybrid which has become a problem for shared mailboxes and other cloud only objects which aren’t discoverable as there isn’t an on prem stub. Since then we’ve started back on hybrid shared mailboxes identities, reluctantly. Wondering what native or unified tools exist for our mix of Lexmark and Sharp MFPs and what others are doing to provide address book functionality. Other things like getting rid of print servers, mobile device support, etc would be nice but not within the scope of my current question. submitted by /u/chesser45 [link] [comments]

Disclaimer: I’m building a tool around ShadowAI, but this post is more about the discussion. I won’t promote or mention what I’m building. With the recent rhetoric around open source models, the risks associated with them, and now a coalition of major tech companies throwing their support behind open source, it makes me wonder whether this is becoming a growing concern for sysadmins, IT managers, and CISOs when it comes to governance and maintaining visibility. I imagine the risk around insider threats becomes more significant submitted by /u/BenSimmons97 [link] [comments]

I’m curious if anyone has podcasts around IT in general that they would recommend? There’s quite a few CyberSecurity ones out there that I’ll listen to but just a general engineering podcast? I’d love it. I don’t care if it’s Azure, AWS or even development. Stories from the trenches or even better what’s happening in Azure, MDM or similar. I enjoy my Darknet Diaries but I’d love a more practical side whether it’s discussions or news bites. YouTube recommendations are welcome also but I’d like something I can listen to while working. submitted by /u/autojack [link] [comments]

Not a sales post, genuinely curious how common this actually is. A lot of solo and small-team founders end up being the ones who set up their own cloud infrastructure!! not because they're security experts, but because there's no one else around to do it. I did the same thing, and while learning cybersecurity properly (separate from my actual business), I found real, would've-been-embarrassing misconfigurations sitting in my own AWS account. Nothing had gone wrong yet. I just had no idea they were there. Tools for catching this already exist, but they're mostly built by and for security professionals the output assumes you already know what IAM privilege escalation or CloudTrail coverage means. If you don't have that background, the report is basically noise you scroll past. So I built one that just tells you plainly: this is wrong, here's what someone could actually do with it, here's the exact fix. Free, open source, runs on your own machine with your own credentials nothing gets uploaded anywhere. If you've set up your own AWS account and never had anyone properly check it would you actually want to know what's sitting in there, or is this the kind of thing you'd rather not think about until something breaks? submitted by /u/kavee-core141 [link] [comments]

Not sure how many of you are Lenovo houses, but I've only recently become aware of Lenovo blocking boot on any devices, software, etc that is not 'Lenovo approved', which is really just Windows and certain versions of Ubuntu (if you run Intel CPUs, no AMDs). Needless to say, this is severely limiting our software devs who are looking to move their platform to linux based OSes. Anyone encountered this? Are other manufacturers doing the same? Anyone successful at getting around it? I've tried Ubuntu(AMD cpu), Mint, Rocky......even using Ventoy.....nothing boots or even recognizes the drives as bootable devices, all UEFI bootable, secure boot off, 3rd party CAs on. All boot in my older Dells and Asus laptops in UEFI mode. Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/brnstormer [link] [comments]

One of my users Onedrive stopped working and they didn't realise for 5 days. The claimed they were working on a Excel spreadsheet saved on their desktop and the file had lost all formatting. It was saved as a CSV file (which you can format as much as you like, but when you save it'll warn you that formatting won't be saved. I took at look at the file and there was only file history from 6 days ago (it was CSV then too). I'm pretty sure Onedrive had stopped running and somehow they were totally oblivious. Of course they're shitty at me about having to re-do their work. Has anyone ever encountered this before? What can you even do? Is there a way to be alerted if Onedrive has no activity for more than x number of hours/days. submitted by /u/spidey99dollar [link] [comments]

Company wants wpa3 enterprise with free radius an ldap and asked me to do it. I set up the certificates and everything else, and things work great! Except IOS devices can't seem to connect. For some reason IOS devices try to connect using MD5, despite me setting TTLS as the default type. googling and asking AI says that I have to have a mobile config file on apple devices in order to make it work. Management really doesn't want people with Iphones to require a mobile config they have to download. Is there a good workaround so that the iphones at my company can connect to the hotspot and sign in using their LDAP credentials without requiring the use of a mobileconfig file? submitted by /u/carefree_dude [link] [comments]

Hi All I'm wondering if anyone has found any tools that we can use internally to record our Systems, dependencies, DRP and BCP plans to easily update and generate documents as needed. We currently have them as individual word files for the BCP/DRP but as we add/remove systems I feel this might become quite hard to track/manage with variance with contract/saas vendors ect. Does something like this exist? Happy with any options to start looking into Cheers S submitted by /u/Whole_Photograph4698 [link] [comments]

Hi all, I am currently an IT support technician with a comp sci degree and have been for ~1 year. I do Tier 1 and some Tier 2 support and am looking to get into system admin. I dip my toes in a bit of everything including networking and I also work in GPO / Microsoft admin center (though very basic, but I work closely with my network admin who has a lot of the access). I know networking is apparently very important and I won't say I'm very knowledgeable about it but I have some knowledge and can understand / follow along. My financial situation is not the greatest. I have enough of course, but I'd rather not spend on anything I don't need. I've heard CCNA is really good, but I'm not sure if it's worth it for me. Of course it won't hurt to get but I'm just trying to see if the benefits outweigh the work / money. Also in the future, I plan on going into cloud infra engineering, so I plan on doing some aws certs like solutions architect. I'm taking it one step at a time but which one is more important? Or maybe both or none? Thank you submitted by /u/RythmicFrost [link] [comments]

hi all, we had an outage on our AWS hosted infrastructure, from around 8am AEST to about 9am, it seems to have fixed itself without any involvement I am trying to see if anyone else in Australia experienced it, I checked down detector, and some major Australian sites (anz, coles, suncorp) had a spike in alerts, then they stop around the same time as our issue was resolved. The funny thing is our clients couldn't get to (our) site, but we could without issue anyway, asking the good people of reddit . submitted by /u/Craigmate [link] [comments]

Struggling to get HR, facilities and dept heads on the same page and it's killing our sla metrics. HR hires someone and forgets to inform IT until the last day experts a full setup laptop by DOJ? It's always the same story and it's not like these diff department people speak to each other or us. We just get random email threads or slack pings saying hey, please get John set up? With zero details on what kind of apps or permissions he actually needs. It's so frustrating and my team loses hours trying to collect basic info and approvals. And all these tanks our IT response time. Do you guys see these issues in your team? How do y'all make sure the other team gives you all the info you need upfront?? submitted by /u/Ok-Reference8134 [link] [comments]

Several ISPs and cell phone carriers are down for hundreds of thousands of users… did we let AI start configuring BGP? https://gvwire.com/2026/07/27/t-mobile-down-for-thousands-of-users-downdetector-reports/ https://downdetector.com submitted by /u/henryhttps [link] [comments]

I am trying to figure out wth is going on with our Azure P2S VPN config. The gateway is configured as OpenVPN (SSL). We used an Intune OMA-URI template to deploy the configuration to end users (Azure VPN Client + Configuration), and the virtual network interface that was created shows as "WAN Miniport (SSTP)" on the Windows devices, which would tell me this is actually an SSTP connection. We are using Entra ID auth and have more than 128 concurrent connections, so that would tell me we are using OpenVPN (SSL). My big concern is the March 2027 SSTP retirement date and whether we would be affected by this or not. Does anyone have an explanation for: - Is this using OpenVPN or SSTP? (Gateway configured OpenSSL, clients appear to be SSTP) - Why does the connection work with the apparent configuration mismatch? - Will this be impacted by the March 2027 SSTP retirement? submitted by /u/Suspect6307 [link] [comments]

I have been bit hard in the past when joining an org that moved too slowly for my tastes. Took two weeks to get anything deployed, and if a deployment screwed up it was a rollback and two more weeks of waiting for a change request. I am very fond of this OG article about how quickly Etsy moved back in the day, and likely still to this day though I am sure the technology stack has shifted for them directly. Not sure if they ever did a followup on that post so wondering what change frequency looks for you all with modern tooling like Kubernetes and Docker in place? submitted by /u/Sure_Stranger_6466 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, Quick workflow showcase/idea for anyone who gets enterprise access to AI CLIs at work (Gemini CLI, Claude Code, etc.) and still finds themselves manually jumping between tools during investigations or routine support tasks. I recently set up a workflow that basically turns my CLI into an automated agent that runs investigations for me. If you have enterprise access and tool integrations available, you’re missing out if you aren't doing this. The Setup: CLI + Enterprise Access: Using the company-provided enterprise CLI directly in the terminal. MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration: Connected the CLI to the actual operational and diagnostic tools used daily (monitoring, databases, logs, ticketing APIs, etc.). Custom Subagents & Commands: Built specific subagent prompts and custom CLI commands tailored to my precise, repetitive investigation steps. How it works in practice: Instead of manually opening 4 tabs, running 3 queries, and checking status logs when an issue comes up: I trigger a custom slash command or alias in my CLI. The subagent kicks off, uses the connected MCP tools to pull relevant context, inspect logs, run diagnostic checks, and correlate data. It hands back a summarized breakdown of what happened, root cause hypotheses, and recommended next steps. Why do this? Zero Context Switching: You stay in the terminal. No Manual Data Copy-Pasting: The MCP server handles fetching real-time data securely. Repeatable Process: Standardized subagent prompts mean complex triage takes seconds instead of 20 minutes. If your company already pays for enterprise CLI access and you're only using it to rewrite functions or explain error messages, hook it up to your tools via MCPs . Curious if anyone else is running similar subagent setups in their terminal for operational work? What tools/MCPs are you chaining together? submitted by /u/gajoute [link] [comments]

Working as devops engineer from last 3 years in states, mostly work on windows stack, azure devops, yaml pipeline. Recently worked with setting up sonarqube & snyk for all teams & product across firm. Currently working in git migration and github actions. Planning to move back to india, what are the expectations for any senior roles as devops, cloud or platform engineer ? I know linux, kubernets and docker but they are more like tools. submitted by /u/SnooCakes7123 [link] [comments]