cjvirtucio

I repeatedly encounter engineers who struggle to write even the most basic JIRA tickets. It was a real eye-opener on how many technical people, while brilliant, tend to take writing skills (or communication skills in general) for granted.

Funny thing is that it's deemed unimportant when they have to do it themselves, but appreciate it when presented with well-documented tooling/libraries.

I have not been doing DevOps for very long, but a useful trick I've found is to create a staging directory, perform my work there, diff the result with the existing state, and copy if a difference exists. I've found it very easy to clean up to a sanitized state in this way; the existing state is safe, since all I have to do is just destroy my work.

.NET Core. It's got everything I need from the java world, without the baggage from being an old technology.