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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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Mastery is mastery of the basics

When members of my community ask about the skills required to reach a more senior engineering role, most of them think of key technologies such as React for frontend developers or Kubernetes for operations engineers. However, my perspective is different. Those key technologies, while interesting and (sometimes) important, come and go. What doesn’t change is…

What people are saying

The pace and rhythm of the course was good, it was always easy to keep up and there was enough time to understand the given lesson.
Enno Welbers
Web developer
One thing I adored were the examples via Docker. That was an easy way to get a hands-on feel for Varnish.
Arne Seemann
Web developer
I liked the whole package — the presentation, the examples and the teacher.
Edward Bock
Web developer
Good presentation, engaging with students.
Sebastian Srb
Web developer