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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.
From my blog
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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
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Always update the BIOS first
Today, I spent hours trying to install Bluefin on an older laptop. The process always failed with Failed to write boot loader configuration. I tried vanilla Fedora Silverblue and ended up with the same disappointing result. Following a tip I found on the Bluefin Discord, I finally tried installing Fedora Workstation, and was able to…
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Talk: Infrastructure as Ruby Code
This is a recording of my talk at Ruby Unconf Hamburg 2024 about configuring servers using Chef/CINC. Given the fact that I decided the day before the conference to prepare and propose this talk, I think it came out pretty decent. 😄 You can find the slides for this talk here.
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A homelab is a skill booster
In her article “What’s the biggest unsolved problem within Site Reliability Engineering?”, Paige Cruz identifies a critical challenge facing our industry: how do we pass the hard-won knowledge of veteran system administrators down to a new generation that has never worked outside cloud infrastructure?