Leaving Puppet Labs after three and a half years to become VP of Engineering at Venmo in New York
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Making changes Puppet and New Relic Deployments Releasing a module that ships deployment events from Puppet to the New Relic Deployment API via a custom type or a report processor
Puppet and Sematext Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships each metric generated during a Puppet run to Sematext using the sematext-metrics gem
Thoughts on recruiting process Seven practical tips for both hiring managers and candidates covering communication, on-site interviews, follow-up, and feedback
The Docker Book Announcing a new book on Docker covering installation, containers, services, building your own PaaS, and writing custom images
Review of ElasticSearch Server A short review of Packt's ElasticSearch Server book, praising its coverage of concepts, indexing, and administration but wanting more on scaling
It is okay to be wrong On unlearning the engineer habit of getting grumpy and defensive about mistakes, and instead treating them as openings rather than punishment