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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.
How you know if you are improving
You want to get ahead in your career. For that reason, you read books, articles and newsletters (like mine), you watch videos, you do practical experiments and even work through DevOps courses. But maybe you’re still not sure if all these efforts have the desired effect. I can wholeheartedly recommend The Bike Shed podcast to…
DIRECT: The seven core topics of remote team communication
If you’re doing remote work, this simple framework will help you communicate more effectively.
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…
