Thomas A. Limoncelli

70 papers Journal 51Unranked 17
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
SRE Is Anti-Transactional.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christian Pearce
2025 J jnl
A Clean Approach to Process Optimization: What I learned from my dishwasher about automating processes.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2025 J jnl
SRE Is Anti-Transactional.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christian Pearce
2024 J jnl
Give Engineers Problems, Not Solutions: A simple strategy to improve solutions and boost morale.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2024 J jnl
Knowing What You Need to Know.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2024 J jnl
Make Two Trips: Larry David's New Year's resolution works for IT too.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2024 J jnl
What do Trains, Horses, and Home Internet Installation have in Common?: Avoid changes mid-process.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2023 J jnl
Improvement on End-to-End Encryption May Lead to Silent Revolution: Researchers are on a brink of what could be the next big improvement in communication privacy.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2023 J jnl
Knowing What You Neeed to Know: Personal, team, and organizational effectiveness can be improved with a little preparation.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2023 J jnl
Split Your Overwhelmed Teams.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2022 J jnl
Split Your Overwhelmed Teams: Two Teams of Five is Not the Same as One Team of Ten.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2021 J jnl
The time I stole $10, 000 from Bell Labs.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2020 J jnl
Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2020 J jnl
Communicate using the numbers 1, 2, 3, and more.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2020 J jnl
Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques: Emulating the efficiency of in-person conversations.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2020 J jnl
Five nonobvious remote work techniques.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2020 J jnl
The Time I Stole $10, 000 from Bell Labs: Or why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
API Practices If You Hate Your Customers.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
API practices if you hate your customers.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
Demo Data as Code.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
Demo data as code.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
Don't ignore the cost of 'embedded energy'.
Commun. ACM
Stefan Monnier, Andrew A. Chien, Robert L. Glass, Charles H. Davis, Thorkil Naur, Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
SQL is no excuse to avoid DevOps.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
The top 10 things executives should know about software.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2019 J jnl
Tom's Top Ten Things Executives Should Know About Software.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018 J jnl
Documentation is automation.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018 J jnl
GitOps: A Path to More Self-service IT.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018 J jnl
GitOps: a path to more self-service IT.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018 J jnl
Operational excellence in April Fools' pranks.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2018 J jnl
SQL is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2017 J jnl
Are you load balancing wrong?
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2017 J jnl
Four Ways to Make CS & IT Curricula More Immersive.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2017 J jnl
Four ways to make CS and IT more immersive.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2017 J jnl
Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
10 Optimizations on Linear Search.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
10 optimizations on linear search.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
How SysAdmins devalue themselves.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
The Small Batches Principle.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2016 J jnl
The small batches principle.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2015 J jnl
Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2015 J jnl
How Sysadmins Devalue Themselves.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2012 J jnl
OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2012 J jnl
OpenFlow: a radical new idea in networking.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2012 J jnl
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure.
ACM Queue
Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, Thomas A. Limoncelli
2011 J jnl
A plea from sysadmins to software vendors: 10 do's and don'ts.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2011 J jnl
LISA '11: Theme - "DevOps: New Challenges, Proven Values".
login Usenix Mag.
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Doug Hughes
2011 J jnl
Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really.
ACM Queue
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Vinton G. Cerf
2011 J jnl
Successful strategies for IPv6 rollouts.: Really.
Commun. ACM
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Vinton G. Cerf
2011 — ed.
The Past, Present, and Future of System Administration: Proceedings of the 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference, LISA 2011, Boston, MA, USA, December 4-9, 2011
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Doug Hughes
2010 J jnl
Sample command-line tool invocation.
login Usenix Mag.
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2009 J jnl
Hey! I Have to Install and Maintain This Crap Too, Ya Know!
login Usenix Mag.
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2006 — conf
How to Get Your Paper Accepted at LISA.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Adam Moskowitz
2006 — conf
Mac OS X.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2006 — conf
Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2006 — conf
Time Management for System Administrators.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2005 — conf
Hostdb: The Best Damn host2DNS/DHCP Script Ever Written.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2005 — conf
Time Management.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2005 — book
Time management for system administrators - stop working late and start working smart.
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2005 — conf
What Big Sites Can Learn from Little Sites.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
2004 — conf
Lessons Learned from Howard Dean's Digital Campaign.
LISA
Keri Carpenter, Thomas A. Limoncelli
2003 — conf
How to Get Your Papers Accepted at LISA.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Adam Moskowitz
2002 — conf
How to Write a Book with Someone You Don't Know: Internet Collaboration for the Truly Geeky.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christine Hogan
2001 — conf
Writing Papers for Usenix Refereed Track.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
1999 — conf
Adverse Termination Procedures -or- "How To Fire A System Administrator".
LISA
Matthew F. Ringel, Thomas A. Limoncelli
1999 — conf
Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
1999 — conf
Tricks You Can Do If Your Firewall Is a Bridge.
NETA
Thomas A. Limoncelli
1998 — conf
Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server.
LISA-NT
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Tom Reingold, Ralph Loura
1997 — conf
Creating a Network for Lucent Bell Labs Research South.
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Tom Reingold, Ravi Narayan, Ralph Loura
1997 — conf
Turning the Corner: Upgrading Yourself from "System Clerk" to "System Advocate".
LISA
Thomas A. Limoncelli