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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.
80-hour weeks don’t make a great engineer. They’ll break a great engineer.
I’m not exaggerating when I say I was shocked by a question about working hours that I got during a recent office hour live stream. “So I heard from a developer that he would code and learn for like 80 hours a week when he started in order to be come an amazing engineer. I…
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.
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.