I write regularly about doing effective, essential human DevOps engineering. I dive into the human factors that make successful DevOps organizations and the teams and platforms at the heart of your socio-technical systems. From personal development to mental health, to leadership and team setup. Discussing maximizing performance through organisation, tools and techniques.
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- Monitoring Azure DevOps Build Pipelines with Prometheus and GrafanaThe best way to have a good time at work is to ensure you have just the right amount of surprises in your day. The right amount of surprises is the minimum amount of surprises unless… Read More »Monitoring Azure DevOps Build Pipelines with Prometheus and Grafana
- Being Nice Asynchronously: The Discipline of Remote WorkingMost tech workers work remotely these days, if not very regularly then at least once in a while. But how do we work with others when we work remotely? Do we even think about it? How… Read More »Being Nice Asynchronously: The Discipline of Remote Working
- How to be a Happier Software EngineerIt is incredibly powerful to realise that a single engineer can influence a team’s overall happiness and, by extension, their own happiness. But it can be frustrating sometimes can’t it? Sometimes, people just don’t get it,… Read More »How to be a Happier Software Engineer
- Too Busy To Do It RightDevOps transformations can often become a checklist of tools and processes we need to assemble, like so much Ikea furniture. But DevOps is not a kit of things you can apply to your organisation. It’s a… Read More »Too Busy To Do It Right
- Can Our Decisions Always Work Out for the Best?Or “No Correct Solutions: How Engineering Actually Happens” I’m currently training for a marathon, so I’m out at stupid-o-clock in the morning to get in a training run before work. However, this gives me time to… Read More »Can Our Decisions Always Work Out for the Best?