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📃The Art of Troubleshooting

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/DC9XWT/

- the book https://artoftroubleshooting.com/book/
- there are 2 mindsets: expert & fixer
- the systems are too complicated our days
- compare working & affected envs to detect the difference
- rubber duck debugging works because the brain switch to another mode. Nowadays AI can be used instead of the duck
- stay curious to learn new debug techniques and train your brain
- not possible/make sense to fix all the problems
- Troubleshooting is explaining the discrepancy between what you expect and what you observe
- every fix is an attempted fix
- did it work before?
- separate facts from assumptions. Use AI prompt: how to verify that …
- have set of possible causes and theories
- ask yourself and clients: what are you trying to achieve? Maybe you are fixing the wrong problem
- isolate/compensate the root cause
- happy fixing


#devconf #debug #conf
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📃Taranis AI: Pioneering AI-Driven OSINT

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/LHY8EY/

- people capacity is limited
- regex might be better llm
- topics clustering is cool with ai
- summarization by ai is ok
- if you use the farm to train then it makes harder to have reproducible env


#ai #devconf
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📃Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/WDGJXW/

- there is fundamental flaw in the ansible vault if it is stored in the git
- awx is not enough but fine
- do not re invent the wheel
- https://github.com/cyberark/conjur-quickstart
- hashicorp vault competitor

#ansible #devconf
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