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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.
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…
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…
DIRECT: The seven core topics of remote team communication
If you’re doing remote work, this simple framework will help you communicate more effectively.