Reading recommendations, week 33/2024
The role of mentorship, why Perl remains indispensable today, how to do a personal retreat, remembering the LAN, and how to cleanly shut down Kubernetes pods.
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My top 5 DevOps book recommendations
Five DevOps book recommendations for software engineers and system administrators entering the field.
How you know if you are improving
How to tell whether your learning efforts are actually helping you improve as an engineer.
The three key drivers for making progress
Motivation problems often point to a missing driver: purpose, progress, or people to learn and work with.
My interview by B7H30 (video)
In March, fellow Twitch streamer and The Server Room member B7H30 kindly invited me to an interview in his "USB My Guest" series! We talked about a lot of things ranging from my PiDP-11 to how I got fired while I was on holidays.
New website features: Wiki, presentations, and blogroll
New Monospace Mentor website features are now available: a wiki, presentation archive, and blogroll.
What distributed teams can learn from open-source projects
Distributed teams can learn a lot from open-source projects about writing, collaboration, and asynchronous work.
TSR Deep Dive session 2024-05-28 (video)
Here is the recording of our first Deep Dive session. First, I explained all the ideas and decisions behind my Linux workstation setup. Then we discussed various approaches to software installation and development environments.
Learning is not a spectator sport
Learning works best when you practice with others, ask questions, and get feedback instead of only consuming content.
TSR Hot Seat session 2024-05-22 (video)
In this Hot Seat session in The Server Room, I reviewed Yohan's assessment project, a Kubernetes deployment of the Cortex SecOps dashboard. He did an amazing job!
Purpose > Productivity
A reflection on moving beyond productivity systems and focusing instead on the purpose behind the work.
It's not Impostor Syndrome
If you're a Junior Engineer and you feel overwhelmed from time to time, I have good news: You don't have Impostor Syndrome.