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Lessons Learnt on roof maintenance

Over the last few years, I've learnt some expensive lessons regarding the maintenance of our galvanised metal roof. This post is mainly to my future self, to not make the same mistakes. I

Book review: Beyond the ...

After reading The Unicorn Project [http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/book-review-the-unicorn-project/] a few months ago, (and Accelerate [http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/book-review-accelerate/] and the Phoenix Project a few years prior) I came

DevOps vs legacy change management

DevOps is primarily focussed on moving code from a developers laptop into production, in a fast manner, while maintaining stability. Fundamentally, this is the delivery pipeline. For those of us using DevOps to

Azure AZ-103 Tips

I studied my first Azure certification - Exam AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator during the latter part of 2019. I completed the course, but did'nt write the exam. I did'nt enjoy Azure training as

AWS SysOps Associate Exam - Tips

I began studying for Sysops in early March, straight after writing Developer Associate.  Similar to what I did with the Developer Associate exam [http://hacksaw.co.za/blog/aws-developer-associate-tips/], I took a practise