Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
At $current_employer (unlike $previous_employer where all these
problems were sorted out), we have great huge TVs in every room but not
consistently useful usage of them. I love seeing big, beautiful
dashboards and KPIs visualised everywhere but right now, we just don't
have that in place. No matter, this is part of my mission to improve
engineering practices here and I'm happy to tackle it.
The…
Perhaps a little late in the year to be conducting a personal retrospective on the years past, but I feel at this point I'm starting to wonder about the challenges ahead. The last two to three years I've distinctly changed my career direction from systems engineering, to "DevOps" (whatever that means anymore), to developer. Sure, I'm technically a Computer Scientist by tertiary education standards…