After weeks of preparation, I’m happy to announce that The Server Room is now open! No, that’s neither a cooling problem nor a security breach. “The Server Room” is my new DevOps community of practice for software engineers, system administrators, SRE, and all kinds of DevOps people. And it’s launching today! You can sign up right away…
In my conversations with junior engineers, especially during my live streams, a question that comes up a lot in different variations is: “What skills do I have to have to be successful?” I thought I’d summarize my recommendations in this article. Analysing problems The first skill any junior engineer needs is problem-solving. As a software…
I’m not exaggerating when I say I was shocked by a question about working hours that I got during a recent office hour live stream. “So I heard from a developer that he would code and learn for like 80 hours a week when he started in order to be come an amazing engineer. I…
This article is about boring technology. And as an exception, I don’t mean “boring” in the sense of established and reliable technology that I recommend you use instead of chasing the latest hype. No, I mean that technology in general has become boring for the most part. In his article “Plateauing technology and boring computing“,…
When I chose “Opsitive” as the brand name for my teaching business, I thought it was a clever play on words. But it wasn’t smart at all.
Feature flags are useful not only to roll out new features gradually, but also to limit the blast radius of breaking changes.
How to save a system file when you forgot to open it with root permissions.
Why Test-Driven Development is an investment that pays off.
Changes I’m making to my community course concept in general, and the Linux Master Course in particular.
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