Hello DevOps people!

It’s time for an update to what’s going on at Opsitive.

Communication is essential when you work in a distributed team. The problem is that it’s not obvious where exactly the centre of balance is between sharing too little and sharing too much. That’s why I’ve created a framework that uses an easy to remember acronym to remind you of good opportunities to keep your distributed team in the loop.

Time is my most valuable resource. Unlike most others, it can’t be replenished, and at my age, I’m acutely aware of this fact. The app I’ve been using daily for a while now to manage my time is Morgen. I can’t believe this service is such a hidden gem.

Hello DevOps people!

This is my journal for week #8, 2022. For reasons that I’ll outline in a second, it took me a few days more than expected to get it finished. And since it looks like producing a weeknote video every single week won’t be sustainable at my current workload, I’ve decided to make that optional and, if I don’t find the time, just send a text-based newsletter. Therefore, if you haven’t signed up for my newsletter yet, subscribe on opsitive.com!

Hello DevOps people!

This is Jochen, and here’s what’s new at Opsitive!

Monorepos contain multiple related codebases in a single source code repository. This approach was made popular by Google, who famously manage almost all the source code of their websites and services within a huge single monorepo.

In my talk “Mono-repo vs Multi-repo – which approach is superior?” that I held in May 2019 at DrupalCamp Scotland, I take a look at the advantages and downsides of monorepos.

This is my first attempt at an explainer video for command line tools. It explains how you can output and concatenate files with the cat command and its more modern cousin bat.

In April 2020, I was a speaker at the inaugural Live Coders Conference and gave this talk in front of a live audience of more than 13,000 Twitch viewers. “Under Pressure — How to build up resilience and keep burnout at bay”, I talk about my own history with burnout, my learnings what causes it, and methods how you can avoid suffering from burnout yourself.

What the heck does “opsitive” mean? Here’s my definition:

opsitive, adj.: Optimistic despite production outages, communication failures and management headaches.