Lost and forgotten nuggets of ideas and advice

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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?

Related: Can humility help you in your career?

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

When clients don’t pay

Read: What happened when I offered advice outside my pay grade?

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