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[[PracOps]] is a technical philosophy developed by [[Robert Brockway]].  The philosophy focuses on the use of [[free and open source software]] and aims to keep systems as simple possible while still achieving their operational objectives reliably.  PracOps argues that humans should be able to fully understand the functioning of a system.

== Backups  ==

== Change ==

Change of the sake of change is bad.

There is such a thing as feature completeness.

== FOSS ==

== Monitoring ==

The purpose of monitoring is to describe the bonunds of the running system, not merely to detect specific failure more.  Properly configured a monitor will alert when the behaviour of the system moves outside the pre-defined limits.  These limits could be statically or dynamically assigned.

== Simplicity ==

== Reliability ==

Unscheduled outages should be minimised.  A concerning trend in IT since 2010 is to acclimate users to outages and failures.  Users should expect more of the computer systems they use.

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