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John Engelman
@johnops.bsky.social
Builder of shiny stuff for devs and devops. Author Gradle Shadow plugin. Leader of Cloud Platforms for @target. Making the cloud less complex to use.
Decided to invest in a winter village upgrade for this year.
December 2, 2024 at 1:26 AM
This. Everyone pokes fun a the massive number of tabs open in my browser, but it’s due to muscle memory from searching for things as I work.
If you are a new programmer, sysadmin, devops engineer, I just want you to know:

me and all of my colleagues with years of experience Google the most basic things *daily*
November 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
And if you’re looking for the maturity model (like I was) - tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/...
November 12, 2024 at 1:42 AM
“How do you find time to work on code as a Sr Director?”
An interesting question from a co-worker the other.
Quite simply, I purposefully make time for it. It’s important to keep my skills up, learn new things, but also to use the opportunity to mentor and work with younger engineers.
November 8, 2024 at 1:40 AM
I’ve been spending some spare cycles the last week working with OTEL for Java. Kind of weird this is my first time doing AOP when compared to how much BPF I’ve written.
November 1, 2024 at 1:29 AM