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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.

What distributed teams can learn from open-source projects
Every week, I read about another company that issued an RTO (Return-to-Office) policy. In many cases, it’s fair to assume that this is a thinly veiled tactic to reduce expensive headcount. In other cases, I’m sure it’s the effect of a leadership that had to jump into the deep end of remote work, and never…
Taking time off is part of the job
Are you getting PTO (Paid Time Off)? If you’re employed, you probably do. It means that even when you’re taking time off work (within limits), you won’t forgo any of your salary. Thanks to the people who fought this right out for us over the last century or so, it’s part of any proper employment…
Test-driven
Why Test-Driven Development is an investment that pays off.