Are there any well known anti-patterns in the field of system administration?
- by ojblass
I know a few common patterns that seem to bedevil nearly every project at some point in its life cycle:
Inability to take outages
Third party components locking out upgrades
Non uniform environments
Lack of monitoring and alerting
Missing redundancy
Lack of Capacity
Poor Change Management
Too liberal or tight access policies
Organizational changes adversely blur infrastructure ownership
I was hoping there is some well articulated library of these anti-patterns summarized in a book or web site. I am almost positive that many organizations are learning through trial by fire methods. If not let's start one.
