Blogging On selling (and buying) DevOps Recently, I had a few interesting conversations with my fellow colleagues about marketing and selling DevOps expertise. After a lively thought exchange and hearing opinions from people with a different professional background, we had several distinct offering formats to evaluate.
Postmortem How I failed the network configuration for my blog A few months ago, I registered an additional shorter domain name for my blog – matveychuk.com and was tweaking the DNS configuration so that users can access the site using both domains. In a while, something weird started happening…
How To How I run my blog Recently, I got a few questions from my friends and colleagues about my blog. Specifically, about its internals. Not to repeat myself, answering the same questions over and over, here I am going to share the technical details on that.
Blogging Challenges of remote work in the times of Corona Virus My own experience of working as a remote contractor for the last nine months proved to be very successful. However, as Scott Hanselman wrote recently, quarantine work is not remote work. Sadly, I tend to agree with his statement, and here is why.
How To How to optimize the cost of your cloud resources [Crosspost] From my experience, this is a hot topic for customers who are on their road to cloud-only infrastructure for a long time. Their interest in that is explainable: despite some perceived vagueness of cloud services, the numbers in monthly invoices are for real.
DevOps What’s wrong with DevOps? I receive a lot of requests from companies and individuals for DevOps job openings, and what I usually see in the job descriptions sometimes really upset me. It seems that many people just don’t get what DevOps is, and use this term as a buzz word to attract attention or to look cool.
Blogging Some thoughts on finance management and investment Last week I attended a seminar on personal finance management and investment strategies for IT professionals. It was a private event, and the speaker was recommended by my colleagues, so I decided to carve some time on my schedule and invest it in my financial education.
Productivity My personal productivity tips – Part 2 In the first part, I finished my recommendations about personal productivity on the importance of separating the execution of tasks from their planning. Now, let’s talk about the preparation itself and other, more technical, aspects of efficiency.
Productivity My personal productivity tips – Part 1 Tip 1: Define your goals first"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
How To How to fix images width for Microsoft Outlook in Mailchimp RSS campaigns sourced from Ghost Recently I was playing with email notifications for my blog which is powered by Ghost. I was choosing between Drip and Mailchimp and decided to give a try for the latter. It took
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