The role of the IT administrator is undergoing a transformation that is redefining the profession. In the past, this job was primarily associated with physically tending to servers and reactive firefighting in…
IBM Acquires Confluent: AI, Streaming, and Data Architecture
The news of IBM acquiring Confluent for $11 billion has caused quite a stir. This isn’t a revolution that changes the laws of physics in IT, but rather a very pragmatic completion…
RHEL 10 Image Mode: The System as an Image
Who doesn’t have that one server in their infrastructure that everyone is afraid to restart? The one where something was tweaked in the configuration, nobody knows exactly what, but if we touch…
The Magic is in the Prompts, or Why AI Thinks You’re an Idiot
I see it every day. Someone opens a chat window and types: “Write me a marketing strategy.” They get three paragraphs of generic bullshit that sounds like it was pulled from a…
Learn for free – IBM courses
As is well known, the continuous improvement of one’s skills is the key to professional success. The specifics of the IT industry require constantly staying up-to-date with new technologies and unceasingly developing…
Your Local AI Assistant for Reading Documents
There’s a flood of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) tools on the market, but if you want to quickly see how it works in practice without wading through documentation, you’ve come to the right…
Ansible Facts Explorer: From Idea to Tool
Sometimes we face the need to find a specific tool that would make our daily work easier. I was recently looking for something to conveniently browse facts from Ansible AWX. Of course,…
Ansible Execution Environments in IBM Power Automation.
Anyone who has tried to maintain a consistent environment for running playbooks, whether on a dedicated Ansible Control Node or any other server, knows how quickly reconciling the requirements of different collections,…
AIX and Memory – How much RAM do I have available?
Introduction Monitoring RAM usage is a key aspect of operating system administration, and the ability to properly interpret the results of system tools seems to be something every systems specialist should possess.…
AIX Toolbox – What is hidden among the RPM packages for AIX?
Most of us working with AIX know the IBM AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software. It’s a repository that gives us access to the open-source world. But have you ever looked closely…