joe-stanton

I've found that many of my colleagues are eager to learn more about modern infrastructure techniques. In an effort to become more full-stack and better support some of our apps in production. This is especially true of developers arriving via Code Schools rather than from a traditional CS background.

Topic Ideas:

  * Docker/Containerisation (ECS)
  * Service Discovery (Etcd, Serf, Consul)
  * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible etc.)
  * Monitoring techniques
  * Capacity planning
  * Security best practices

There doesn't seem to be much out there addressing this "need", except https://sysadmincasts.com/ which seems abandoned these days.

Would this kind of screencast be of interest to anyone? I'm thinking I could charge a subscription fee for it. Small bite size lessons. Any further thoughts or topic ideas?

Thanks!

How do you stay productive as a developer without constant access to the internet? I'm going travelling soon and internet is very slow and expensive.

I'm thinking of ideas to mitigate issues such as as:

  - Access to documentation
  - Availability of Gems/Packages I may need in future
  - Developing against API's which I won't have access to etc.
  - Getting stuck?

Seems like lots of you guys work on a plane, I assume some of the same tips apply!