Kelsey Hightower

And you're making sure that everything looks good.

You need to be careful not to touch them because you could die.

And so you learn everything about a data center, like the service loop.

You're running all this Cat5 cable.

It has to have a perfect service loop.

Fiber runs on a different part of the rack, right?

So you don't ever mix these things.

So as a person still, like I'm in my early 20s, I'm thinking this is how all data centers look.

It's not the case.

The reason why I didn't feel as bad as some of the metrics people are using now is because I felt like I can control the outcome.

it didn't feel like it was a thing that was just a metric that didn't do anything.

If I felt like my score was taking a hit, and I was like, you know what, I am being a bit sloppy in how I'm diagnosing these machines.

And I remember one time where I almost had my score dip below 90,

I started writing additional shell scripts to start and combining different functions together.

It's like, you know what?

I can't be moving this fast.

There's a way for me to diagnose multiple things in the machine at one time.

And so I would diagnose the SATA array, all the hard drives while I'm doing the memory component.

And then when it rebooted, I would just run the script one more time as I'm putting my cart back together to catch that one more thing.

And once I started doing that, I can move as fast as I want it and the scores are right.