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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.
Where is all the exciting technology?
This article is about boring technology. And as an exception, I don’t mean “boring” in the sense of established and reliable technology that I recommend you use instead of chasing the latest hype. No, I mean that technology in general has become boring for the most part. In his article “Plateauing technology and boring computing“,…
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.
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Self-Hosting Web Applications Using Podman
Container-based deployment is a neat way to self-host an application. However, I always try not to go overboard with complexity. That’s why I won’t immediately join the chorus of Kubernetes disciples when members of my DevOps community ask me how to deploy container workloads. Searching for viable alternatives, I recently explored the much simpler alternative…