Geeky – The road to DevOps.

One of the areas I often see senior engineers struggle with, is raising junior engineers to the next level.
Often this is because we don’t give them the space to explore, learn and understand how to approach problems for themselves.
We’re going to look at three different scenarios to illustrate how decisions are usually made, how they could be better, and how senior engineers should be helping others make decisions, rather than making decisions themselves....

Last week I purchased a Sony A7ii, which I absolutely love.
The camera is fantastic for some many reasons that are covered by many reviews. Unfortunately I was hit by small known issue with some of the camera builds: sometimes, after you take a picture, the shutter will get stuck, and stay closed....

As an operations engineer, my go-to philosophy is often “make it work first, then make it work better.” When you write a script, or apply a complex change, you don’t always have the luxury of making is perfect in the first iteration.
As always, there are exceptions to this rule. In today’s case, I was making a change to an application which runs the same method billions of times a date....

Recently, Paul Graham wrote an essay, making the case to change immigration rules to allow more excellent programmers into the US.
While Paul makes a number of excellent points, I think he's missed the mark. There is a certain mindset in large parts of our industry that in order to succeed as a programmer, or to succeed as a start up, you must be located in Silicon Valley, and you...