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I shall draw comparisons between caring for a newborn baby and a production system, including analytics, hacks etc. The gist is the I reframed the care for a child in a way I am able to deal with i...

We spend a LOT of time optimizing our pipelines, work environments etc. Why not use the same skills to make our home life better ? Inspired by the John Willis Post of the same name: https://devops....

having done both Dev and Ops, I feel there is some truth, but several lies as well as to how having sysadmin experience affects devs, and how dev experience affects sysadmins. The title is a play o...

having done both Dev and Ops, I feel there is some truth, but several lies as well as to how having sysadmin experience affects devs, and how dev experience affects sysadmins. The title is a play o...

Your engineers need to be able to start their own machines, set up their own services, and be independent in the cloud. That is nice, but that also means relinquishing control of costs to some exte...

Bad monitoring, alerting and logging has made Gil Zellner very frustrated in some of his previous positions. It seems that almost nobody gets this exactly right. This will be a talk about the most ...

Bad monitoring, alerting and logging has made Gil Zellner very frustrated in some of his previous positions. It seems that almost nobody gets this exactly right. This will be a talk about the most ...

You have a cloud environment. You set it up in a hurry because you needed to get shit done. Now your company is thriving, but the tech debt of your messy cloud environment is killing your productiv...

you drive on the right side of the road. and you want to go left. Do you take 3 right turns or 1 left turn? I will argue that while it seems like taking one left turn is easier faster and simpler, ...

We all go to conferences and hear pretty much more of the same. Yet another talk about microservices\docker\etc. But are these really the same talks? is this a simple rehash, or rather evolution?

Our internally created tools boost our productivity, remove friction, and make our work-lives not suck. I will discuss a few tools I came across and a few I made to make our life not suck at work.