If you’re a bad at management, don’t blame remote work
This article is a rant triggered by an inane argument made by Eric Schmidt, who blamed remote work for what’s clearly management failure.
When is it recommended to adopt a new DevOps tool?
In this article, I discuss the pros and cons of checking out and maybe adopting new DevOps tools, even though the ones we have are still doing their job.
My top 5 DevOps book recommendations
In a recent Office Hour (which I hold every Friday on my live streaming channels), a viewer asked about DevOps books. They wanted to know which reads I would recommend to someone freshly entering the DevOps space. I was able to list a few, but couldn’t come up with all the ones I find useful…
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.
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…
