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Published inJun 2017
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ISBN-139781784396879
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Giorgio Zarrelli
Giorgio Zarrelli
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Giorgio Zarrelli

Giorgio Zarrelli is a passionate GNU/Linux system administrator and Debian user, but has worked over the years with Windows, Mac, and OpenBSD, writing scripts, programming, installing and configuring services--whatever is required from an IT guy. He started tinkering seriously with servers back in his university days, when he took part in the Computational Philosophy Laboratory and was introduced to the Prolog language. As a young guy, he had fun being paid for playing games and write about them in video game magazines. Then he grew up and worked as an IT journalist and Nagios architect, and recently moved over to the threat intelligence field, where a lot of interesting stuff is happening nowadays. Over the years, he has worked for start-ups and well-established companies, among them In3 incubator and Onebip as a database and systems administrator, IBM as QRadar support, and Anomali as CSO, trying to find the best ways to help companies make the best out of IT. Giorgio has written several books in Italian on different topics related to IT, from Windows security to Linux system administration, covering MySQL DB administration and Bash scripting.
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We are now able to send formatted messages to the #test channel, but is this all we can do with this script? No, as you will learn over time with a bit more experience, programming is also setting a scope to our efforts: we must define our goals, plan accordingly, accomplish them, and assess the results. Overdoing, in a professional environment, breaks one of the fundamental rules of the project management, the so-called iron triangle that defines the quality of a project as the intersection between scope, time, and costs that are the top three constrains driving us in creating our programs. Spend too long on a program or exceed the goals, the cost will levitate and the overall quality, not the quality of the code, but of our project, will be impacted.

This script was an example on how to plan and execute, how to check for the information we need to code a working script...

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Published in: Jun 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781784396879

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Giorgio Zarrelli

Giorgio Zarrelli is a passionate GNU/Linux system administrator and Debian user, but has worked over the years with Windows, Mac, and OpenBSD, writing scripts, programming, installing and configuring services--whatever is required from an IT guy. He started tinkering seriously with servers back in his university days, when he took part in the Computational Philosophy Laboratory and was introduced to the Prolog language. As a young guy, he had fun being paid for playing games and write about them in video game magazines. Then he grew up and worked as an IT journalist and Nagios architect, and recently moved over to the threat intelligence field, where a lot of interesting stuff is happening nowadays. Over the years, he has worked for start-ups and well-established companies, among them In3 incubator and Onebip as a database and systems administrator, IBM as QRadar support, and Anomali as CSO, trying to find the best ways to help companies make the best out of IT. Giorgio has written several books in Italian on different topics related to IT, from Windows security to Linux system administration, covering MySQL DB administration and Bash scripting.
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