Career Advice —25 min listen
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.

Career Advice —2 min read
Dimensions of specialization

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

Career Advice —3 min read
Should you call yourself "fullstack"?

The term "fullstack" propagates a commodity mindset that harms candidates.

Career Advice —1 min read
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.

Career Advice —1 min read
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.

Career Advice —1 min read
My first accepted pull request

Have you ever contributed to open-source software? You should. It's easy.

Career Advice —33 min watch
Go Code Roast #2: readability.js port

In this video, I roast a port of a Mozilla Javascript library, readability.js to Go.

Career Advice —3 min read
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?

Career Advice —50 min listen
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.

Career Advice —33 min watch
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.

Career Advice —11 min episode
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.