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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.
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…
Reading recommendations, week 35/2024
AI for sysadmins, a non-murderous design pattern, how to apply for SRE jobs and how to find focus doing them, and an interesting fish.
I was on the Beyond Blocks podcast
Oliver Davies, a Drupal expert whom I’ve known for years, graciously invited me to join him on his podcast. “Beyond Blocks” is a weekly podcast about Drupal, PHP, open-source, and related software development topics. I enjoyed every minute of our chat, which covered all kinds of topics such as infrastructure automation, Drupal, WordPress, DevOps, Linux…