Turning the Corner: Upgrading Yourself from "System Clerk" to "System Advocate". - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 1997)

Creating a Network for Lucent Bell Labs Research South. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Tom Reingold; Ravi Narayan; Ralph Loura (LISA, 1997)

Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Tom Reingold; Ralph Loura (LISA-NT, 1998)

Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 1999)

Adverse Termination Procedures -or- "How To Fire A System Administrator". - Matthew F. Ringel; Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 1999)

Tricks You Can Do If Your Firewall Is a Bridge. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (NETA, 1999)

Writing Papers for Usenix Refereed Track. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2001)

Do You Know What's in Your Firewall? - Tom Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

How to Write a Book with Someone You Don't Know: Internet Collaboration for the Truly Geeky. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Christine Hogan (LISA, 2002)

How to Get Your Papers Accepted at LISA. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Adam Moskowitz (LISA, 2003)

Lessons Learned from Howard Dean's Digital Campaign. - Keri Carpenter; Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2004)

Time management for system administrators - stop working late and start working smart. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (O'Reilly, 2005)

Hostdb: The Best Damn host2DNS/DHCP Script Ever Written. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2005)

What Big Sites Can Learn from Little Sites. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2005)

Time Management. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2005)

Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2006)

Time Management for System Administrators. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2006)

Mac OS X. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (LISA, 2006)

How to Get Your Paper Accepted at LISA. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Adam Moskowitz (LISA, 2006)

Delegating to the Web. - Tom Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2006)

How to Get Your LISA Paper Accepted. - Tom Limoncelli; Paul Anderson 003; Adam Moskowitz (LISA, 2007)

Hey! I Have to Install and Maintain This Crap Too, Ya Know! - Thomas A. Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2009)

Sample command-line tool invocation. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2010)

A plea from sysadmins to software vendors: 10 do's and don'ts. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2011)

Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really. - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Vinton G. Cerf (ACM Queue, 2011)

LISA '11: Theme - "DevOps: New Challenges, Proven Values". - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Doug Hughes (login Usenix Mag., 2011)

OpenFlow: A Radical New Idea in Networking. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2012)

Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure. - Jesse Robbins; Kripa Krishnan; John Allspaw; Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2012)

Technical Leadership Is Something We Can All Do. - Tom Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2013)

Ganeti: Cluster Virtualization Manager. - Guido Trotter; Tom Limoncelli (login Usenix Mag., 2013)

Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2015)

How Sysadmins Devalue Themselves. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2015)

The Small Batches Principle. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2016)

10 Optimizations on Linear Search. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2016)

Are You Load Balancing Wrong? - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2016)

Four ways to make CS and IT more immersive. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2017)

Four Ways to Make CS & IT Curricula More Immersive. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2017)

Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2017)

Documentation is automation. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2018)

GitOps: A Path to More Self-service IT. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2018)

SQL is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2018)

The top 10 things executives should know about software. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2019)

Don't ignore the cost of 'embedded energy'. - Stefan Monnier; Andrew A. Chien; Robert L. Glass; Charles H. Davis; Thorkil Naur; Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2019)

Tom's Top Ten Things Executives Should Know About Software. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2019)

Demo Data as Code. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2019)

API Practices If You Hate Your Customers. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2019)

Five nonobvious remote work techniques. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2020)

Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2020)

Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques: Emulating the efficiency of in-person conversations. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2020)

The Time I Stole $10, 000 from Bell Labs: Or why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2020)

The time I stole $10, 000 from Bell Labs. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2021)

Split Your Overwhelmed Teams: Two Teams of Five is Not the Same as One Team of Ten. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2022)

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. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2023)

Knowing What You Neeed to Know: Personal, team, and organizational effectiveness can be improved with a little preparation. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2023)

Split Your Overwhelmed Teams. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2023)

What do Trains, Horses, and Home Internet Installation have in Common?: Avoid changes mid-process. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2024)

Make Two Trips: Larry David's New Year's resolution works for IT too. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2024)

Give Engineers Problems, Not Solutions: A simple strategy to improve solutions and boost morale. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2024)

Knowing What You Need to Know. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (Commun. ACM, 2024)

A Clean Approach to Process Optimization: What I learned from my dishwasher about automating processes. - Thomas A. Limoncelli (ACM Queue, 2025)