On July 19th 2004, I spent my first day at Google. I showed up at the Datacenter in Dublin, since that's apparently where SREs and production folks were going to sit. There wasn't a corp network connection, because this was Google in 2004. A couple of days later, I moved …
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Going to be playing a bit of catch-up, since it's been a few months.
Work is still workin' -- I've got some coaching going on, and am still working mainly with one team on consulting. It's been fun times, and the gig is flexible enough that I've gone essentially part time …
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Read MoreA few months further into my "not working full-time and seeing how that goes" journey.
I've picked up a contract for the consulting end of my 'job' since January, that'll likely last til the summer or thereabouts -- it'd been fun doing the good and useful parts of the job I …
Read MoreRecycling old talk proposals for fun and...that's it!
Here's an amalgamation of the proposal text and some notes from a talk I proposed for SRECon EMEA last year -- I'll be talking about this to the Dublin SRE meetup in a couple of weeks, so here it is while the …
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The last few weeks were a bit of a hive of activity. I went back to work, started a small business, and went from no-busy-at-all levels of work-related concentration to quite-busy-and-not-very-stressful-yet. I'm going to be doing more than just coaching, but that's for another time.
Earlier this year, I asked …
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