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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.
Learning is not a spectator sport
If you want to learn effectively, you’ll have to accept that learning isn’t a spectator sport. It’s a contact sport. In order to boost your know-how and with it your career, find a group that helps you reach your goals.
A rocky but encouraging start with Rails credentials
For the biggest part of this week, I’ve been working on upgrading the Rails versions of our managed hosting dashboard application. I started with Rails 6.0, and now I’m at Rails 7.1. Today, I struggled for a long time with deploying to the staging instance on Heroku. At the centre of my issues was that…
Talk: Infrastructure as Ruby Code
This is a recording of my talk at Ruby Unconf Hamburg 2024 about configuring servers using Chef/CINC. Given the fact that I decided the day before the conference to prepare and propose this talk, I think it came out pretty decent. đŸ˜„ You can find the slides for this talk here.
