The purpose of metaphor is to communicate. So use a metaphor that helps you best communicate in the moment.

Some answers that simply don't exist, or the cost to find them outweighs the value of the decision to be made.

It feels like we're still in the folk-medicine days of IT, debating the efficacy of animal dung ointments and bloodletting with leeches. But one practice that's proven effective in improving software quality is code review.

Yesterday I was asked my thoughts on BizDevOps. Here are my three thoughts on the topic.

I have a job to do, and spending €400 allowed me to complete the job more effectively.

Do you worry about UUID collisions? Your data center is more likely to be destroyed in a nuclear strike. Prioritize what matters.

Apparently everyone hates sys admins. It's the kernel of truth in this meme that lead to the DevOps movement.

The "skills" we're often so proud of often just looks like sh**.

Someone asked how I publish this daily content. Here's my behind-the-scenes answer.

How should you decide when to use a microservices architecture or a monolithic architecture?

As frequently happens when consulting with small projects and startups, this week I was asked “Should we manage our own service, or use a hosted solution?” My answer is pretty consistently the same: Start with a hosted service, and switch to self-managed only if and when it makes financial sense. This question, and my answer, are generally applicable to all sorts of services: Kubernetes, log search, service monitoring, databases, mail automation, etc.