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The magic of TLS, X509 and mutual authentication explained
A story that explains the problems solved by TLS and X509 certificates
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Andrew howden
My radical idea: How to be a Site Reliability Engineer
I want to pass on whatever I've learned about SRE. I need your help to make sure its useful
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Andrew howden
Should you go to SRECon?
A story about whether or not it is useful to go to conferences (spoiler: yes), why, how to maximize the value and how to overcome the invariable…
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Andrew howden
Running an effective meeting
Making good use of everyone else time
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Andrew howden
Suddenly, you're in charge. Now what?
Some tools and techniques I've used in the past to create a common sense of direction and purpose.
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Andrew howden
Help I'm now on call!
What to do if you find yourself responsible for production systems and you're not sure entirely what that means
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Andrew howden
What is a container?
A (long) description of the internals of a container.
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Andrew howden
The problem of SRE vs DevOps vs ... whatever
One of the well-intentioned but less valuable conversations that tend to happen around the discipline of “Site Reliability Engineering” is “What’s the…
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Andrew howden
On communicating through writing
In February 2024, I joined a new organization as a “principal engineer”.
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Andrew howden
The elegant, but unspoken solution
A quick write-up about the interlinking between engineering value, high performance teams and psychological safety
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Andrew howden
Incident Commander
How to maximize the capabilities of those responding to production outages
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Andrew howden
Anatomy of a “Good” commit message
Current thinking about what should be in a commit
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Andrew howden
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