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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.
From my blog
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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
How I schedule work and communication with Morgen
Morgen.so is an amazing web calendar that integrates several online calendars and to-do applications. In this article, I explain how I use it to manage my tasks and video calls.
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…