Adventures In DevOps 101: How to prepare for an interview
Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.

Dimensions of specialization
As your career progresses, you'll lkely want to niche down across more than one of these dimensions of specialization.

Should you call yourself "fullstack"?
The term "fullstack" propagates a commodity mindset that harms candidates.

How I became a CouchDB PMC member
I learned that contributing to open source can take many forms, and may not require writing code at all.

An easy way to contribute to open source
Next time you're learning a new open source tool, consider submitting doc fixes as you see errors.

My first accepted pull request
Have you ever contributed to open-source software? You should. It's easy.
Go Code Roast #2: readability.js port
In this video, I roast a port of a Mozilla Javascript library, readability.js to Go.
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Should you speak at meetups or conferences?
We often hear the advice to do public speaking to boost our engineering career. Is that really helpful?
Adventures In DevOps 096: What Certificates Should I Get?
The Adventures in DevOps crew discuss the various certificates that exist and which ones you may or may not want to consider getting.
Go Code Roast
In this video, I roast some Go code! That is, I review it as if it were submitted as part of a job application screening. I talk about what I like, what I don't like, and how I would do things differently.
Tiny DevOps BONUS episode: The scariest technical screening you've ever seen!
In this short, Halloween bonus episode, I talk about a very scary technical screening process I learned about just a couple of days ago. I explain why the screening process is scary from the perspective of both the candidate, and the hiring manager.