I’ve been blogging for so long, sometimes, I forget about all the old material I’ve written.
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And I was just recently digging through some of the old titles, and thought it would be fun to repost some good ones.
1. What is it, and why is it important?
✅ Infrastructure provisioning, what is it and why is it important?
✅ Root cause analysis – what is it and why is it important?
✅ Zero downtime – what is it and why is it important?
✅ Stress testing – what is it and why is it important?
✅ Data spot checks – what is it and why is it important?
✅ Service monitoring – what is it and why is it important?
✅ Decoupling – what is it and why is it important?
Read: What did Matt Ranney discover scaling Uber to 1000 microservices?
2. Thought provoking
✅ Is AWS too complex for small dev teams?
✅ The myth of five nines – Why high availability is overrated
✅ Why are generalists better at scaling the web?
✅ How to hire a developer that doesn’t suck?
✅ What 5 things are toxic to scalability?
✅ Is there a 4 letter word dividing dev and ops?
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3. Consulting
✅ Can progress reports help engagements succeed?
✅ How do you handle the onboarding of a new engagement?
✅ Why I ask clients for a deposit
✅ How to avoid legal problems in consulting?
✅ How best to do discovery in cloud devops engagements
✅ When you’re hired to solve a people problem
✅ When you have to take the fall
Read: What happened when I offered advice outside my pay grade?