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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.
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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?
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Five skills every junior engineer needs to succeed
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 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 engineer, your…
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Un-breaking breaking changes using feature flags
Feature flags are useful not only to roll out new features gradually, but also to limit the blast radius of breaking changes.