So What is Purposeful Learning?

In a few of my posts I’ve mentioned purposeful learning. I now realize that not everyone knows what I am referring to. If you’ve ever tried to learn something in theory just for the sake of knowing it you might have better insight.  Especially if you later had a reason…
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A Heartfelt Goodbye to PagerDuty

The past year and a half have been more than interesting. As part of that journey, the past 6 months have been spent at PagerDuty. While there I made a lot of new friends, solved interesting problems in creative ways, built some great professional relationships.  I also learned a lot,…
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How To Build a System Workbench

With the growth of the Cloud, fewer and fewer people actually put their hands on hardware.  But there are times that a cash-strapped startup, consultant or a frugal hobbyist/entrepreneur will want to get a MVP (Minimally Viable Product) up and running without having the recurring expense of deploying in the…
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