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On communicating through writing
In February 2024, I joined a new organization as a “principal engineer”.
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My radical idea: How to be a Site Reliability Engineer
I want to pass on whatever I've learned about SRE. I need your help to make sure its useful
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Incident Commander
How to maximize the capabilities of those responding to production outages
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Writing a bug report
A story about what developers see, and how to maximise their initial understanding of an issue.
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Anatomy of a “Good” commit message
Current thinking about what should be in a commit
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Suddenly, you’re in charge. How do you create direction?
A story about how I've learned to use strategy as a common tool
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Reading Lists
Books, papers and assorted bits I've made it through and are useful.
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My Radical Idea: How to be a Site Reliability Engineer
Listen now (8 mins) | I want to pass on whatever I've learned about SRE. I need your help to make sure its useful
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