The Sysadmin of the Secret Lair
Keeping the Doom Server Online

About this book:

Arthur Pimm doesn't save the world—he keeps the volcano from melting the server racks. As chief sysadmin for Lord Malice's subterranean empire, he manages fiber runs through shark tanks, patches firmware on orbital death rays, and explains to the boss why "megalomania" isn't a valid root certificate. Between henchman password resets, ransomware on the doomsday device, and the recurring nightmare of heroes in the air ducts, Arthur's just trying to hit five nines of uptime before the self-destruct sequence demands two-factor authentication.

*The Sysadmin of the Secret Lair* is *The Office* meets *Austin Powers* by way of *The Bastard Operator from Hell*—a love letter to anyone who's ever muttered "technical debt" while the building literally shakes. Twenty-six chapters of deadpan brilliance where the real villain is legacy code, the heroes are just penetration testers with better PR, and the biggest threat to world domination isn't the spy in Server Room B—it's an expired SSL cert on the magma vents.

Grab your tool belt. The shark tank's fiber just leaked, the weather machine needs troubleshooting, and Lord Malice has a video call with the Syndicate of Gloom in twenty minutes. Someone has to keep the doom server online. It might as well be the only guy who reads the changelogs.