In 2021, I joined Cornell Tech as a Visiting Instructor, to trial out a class called CS 5356 Building Startup Systems. It started off as a 1-credit course that met for 1:15 hours a week. The goal of...
read articleToday, I stared at a to-do on my Trello board saying "schedule 1-1s with your team." Its been on my list for 2 weeks now, and even though I see it every day, I keep putting it off. I...
read articleDoes this sound familiar? The best dev on the team is promoted to being a tech lead, despite not having any management experience. That dev then all of a sudden has to deal with: Angela, the senior...
read articleThe tech lead was moving to another team for a long-term assignment, and I took over as the engineering manager/team lead. From the outside, the tech lead's job seemed doable, but I quickly realized I...
read articleAs a follow up from my last post about things I look for when hiring a junior DevOps engineer - these are the things I'm looking for out of a senior engineer. It all boils down to what I consider the...
read articleYou've been hearing about DevOps as a career path, and you're looking to to break into the field as a Jr DevOps engineer, but you don't quite know if you're qualified for it yet. You might be a recent...
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