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Hi! I’m Jochen, the Monospace Mentor.
With decades of experience in web operations, software engineering and IT leadership, I’m here to help you improve your everyday work and take that next career step.
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I help DevOps people grow. In courses, workshops and individual mentorship sessions, I enable software developers and infrastructure engineers to deliver results faster, better and more reliably. All my learning products are optimized for engineering teams of one to ten who have little time to level up.
From my blog
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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles on system administration and software development that complement my DevOps online courses.
Five skills every junior engineer needs to succeed
In my conversations with junior engineers, especially during my live streams, a question that comes up a lot in different variations is: “What skills do I have to have to be successful?” I thought I’d summarize my recommendations in this article. Analysing problems The first skill any junior engineer needs is problem-solving. As a software…
Where is all the exciting technology?
This article is about boring technology. And as an exception, I don’t mean “boring” in the sense of established and reliable technology that I recommend you use instead of chasing the latest hype. No, I mean that technology in general has become boring for the most part. In his article “Plateauing technology and boring computing“,…
Mastery is mastery of the basics
When members of my community ask about the skills required to reach a more senior engineering role, most of them think of key technologies such as React for frontend developers or Kubernetes for operations engineers. However, my perspective is different. Those key technologies, while interesting and (sometimes) important, come and go. What doesn’t change is…