Earlier this month, I was invited to attend MAKERSxMailchimp, a presentation and dinner hosted by Mailchimp in honor of the MAKERS conference in CA. Prior to this invitation, I hadn’t heard of this conference. So what is it? “The 2019…

Learn how I detected network saturation via iftop.

Over the last few months, Tanya Reilly’s Being Glue presentation has been making the engineering rounds. And for good reason! Engineers at every level find themselves in roles where they do a lot of glue work – tasks that move…

The very first book review on steffersaur.us! Here I review Mike Julian’s Practical Monitoring: Effective Strategies for the Real World by providing my overall impressions, key takeaways, and recommended audiences.

In the land of superheroes and villains, everyone has an origin story about how they came into their powers. Here’s how I unexpectedly found my passion for engineering.

In an ideal world, the path you take as an engineer is clearly laid out. But this is real life, and everything, including our careers, can get a little messy. Here I offer some of the approaches I’ve tried to figure out my next step and continue growing.

Take a peek into how I troubleshoot unexpected values from Graphite being graphed in Grafana. Whew, all the alliteration!

A catch-all for everything else:

cat * | grep -vi "today-i-learned|book-reviews"

Here I discuss systems engineering-related things I’m currently learning about inside and outside of the office: technologies, tools, and random tidbits.

I’m an avid reader and enjoy gasp devouring technical books. Here I’ll review what I’ve been reading in the engineering space – what I loved, what I didn’t enjoy, and general takeaways.

Bonus: the odd piece of fiction may appear here if it feels relevant.