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Hi! I’m Jochen, the Monospace Mentor.
With decades of experience in web operations, software engineering and IT leadership, I’m here to help you improve your everyday work and take that next career step in DevOps/SRE.
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I help DevOps people grow. In courses, workshops and individual mentorship sessions, I enable software developers and system administrators to deliver results faster, better and more reliably. All my learning products are optimized for engineers who have little time to level up.
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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
Purpose > Productivity
I am a recovering productivity addict. I read David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done” several times. I practised Inbox Zero religiously. It feels like I’ve tried all the popular to-do apps, calendaring strategies, and productivity methods. Spending my time as efficiently as possible was so important to me that it actually gave me joy to…
What distributed teams can learn from open-source projects
Every week, I read about another company that issued an RTO (Return-to-Office) policy. In many cases, it’s fair to assume that this is a thinly veiled tactic to reduce expensive headcount. In other cases, I’m sure it’s the effect of a leadership that had to jump into the deep end of remote work, and never…
Save a file from vim with root permissions
How to save a system file when you forgot to open it with root permissions.
