Yevgeniy Brikman

Nice! Yea, start nice and slow :)

Fantastic. Hope it works well for you!

Review: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green This book is a collection of essays from John Green on a variety of topics from the modern era, including the QWERTY keyboard, Canadian geese, Super Mario Kart, ...

Read my full review and notes here: www.ybrikman.com/blog/2025/11...

That said, a few of the essays are memorable gems. I especially enjoyed the essay that introduced the idea of "third things": those items that couples look at and experience together (art, travel, kids). So much of the joy in life is sharing third things with someone you love.

The writing throughout is beautiful, even moving at times, and most of the topics are interesting. The only problem is that the stories are all fairly short and disconnected, and even just a few days after finishing the book, many of them have already faded from memory.

I just finished "The Anthropocene Reviewed" by John Green. It's a collection of essays on a variety of topics from the modern era, including the QWERTY keyboard, Canadian geese, Super Mario Kart, teddy bears, and Haley’s Comet.

A few thoughts:

A Comprehensive Guide to Desk Treadmills In 2022, I bought a desk treadmill, and it turned out to be one of the best investments I’ve made in my health in years. It improved my fitness, made me more prod...

A Comprehensive Guide to Desk Treadmills. Topics include:

💪 Benefits of a desk treadmill
⌨️ Working and typing while walking
🏃 Walking speed
🚀 Impact on productivity, creativity, mood
💰 What to buy and costs
🔧 Maintenance
🔀 Alternatives

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In 2022, I got a desk treadmill, and it turned out to be one of the best investments I’ve made in my health in years. It improved my fitness, productivity, and likely added years to my life. I’ve gotten so many questions about it that I decided to write a blog post:

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In this GOTO Book Club interview, I chat with @kief.com about my book "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery," the definition of DevOps, tools for managing infrastructure and applications, why you can't not have a framework, and the future of DevOps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyz_...

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"You can't not have a framework. Either you use one or you create your own - and yours probably won't be well documented or maintained." @brikis98.bsky.social and @kief.com discuss why infrastructure automation needs standardization, not more custom wrapper scripts.

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Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery This book is a hands-on guide to software delivery—that is, all the processes, tools, and techniques that are required to run and maintain software in production on an ongoing basis—and DevOps, one of...

I didn’t get fired that day. I did learn a lot about testing, CI/CD, rollbacks, data storage, and monitoring. I've captured these lessons, and many others, in "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery." www.fundamentals-of-devops.com

It turns out my code was calling a function that, under the hood, made 2 DB queries. During sort comparisons.

It takes roughly N log N sort comparisons to sort N items.

Paris has N = ~2,000 hotels.

So each time this sort was used, it was making ~40,000 calls to the DB. 😅

It never finished loading. He refreshed and tried again. Same issue.

At this point, I was sweating profusely, and positive I was going to be fired my first week on the job.

That's when the alerts started to go off 🚨

My first task at TripAdvisor was to add a new sort option to the hotels page. Easy! I got it done & deployed in my 1st week. I then had my first 1:1 with my manager. He opened the hotels page for Paris, picked my new sort option, and waited. And waited. And waited...

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Here's one of my stories:

I took down TripAdvisor.

In my 1st week on the job. 😅

Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery This book is a hands-on guide to software delivery—that is, all the processes, tools, and techniques that are required to run and maintain software in production on an ongoing basis—and DevOps, one of...

I made some changes to the "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery" website:

- Updated the text in the intro section
- Added a "how this book is different" section
- Minor tweaks to other sections

Thoughts? Is the site clear? What could I improve?

www.fundamentals-of-devops.com

Gruntwork Blog | 5 steps to get out of DevOps bankruptcy

5 steps to get out of DevOps bankruptcy:

1. Quantify the drag
2. Eliminate single points of knowledge
3. Budget for the cleanup
4. Automate the routine
5. Focus on outcomes, not motion

www.gruntwork.io/blog/5-steps...

I've come across many companies where:

🔥 They're constantly putting out fires
🚨 Nothing is reproducible or documented
⚠️ Even minor changes feel risky
😰 The predominant emotions are fear & stress

This is "DevOps Bankruptcy." We wrote a guide on how to get yourself out of it:

I get my audiobooks from Audible, Hoopla, and Libby. Just about all use professional narrators. I do check before starting to listen, but with those providers, it’s very rare to get a crappy narrator.

Def worth it!

I only listen to audiobooks from professional narrators. There are many amazing ones: Jim Dale, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Ray Porter, Kate Reading, R.C. Bray, Michael Kramer, Frank Muller, Amy Landon, Stephen Fry, Wil Wheaton, Jefferson Mays, Julia Whelan, and many others.

Here are my recommendations for Chapter 9: bsky.app/profile/brik...

How to Store Data Learn how to store data, including how and when to use relational databases, key-value stores, file stores, object stores, CDNs, document stores, columnar databases, queues, streams, and more.

For the full list of resources, see: www.fundamentals-of-devops.com/chapters/cha...

Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems Amazon.com: Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems: 9781491925942: Campbell, Laine, Majors, Charity: Books

"Database Reliability Engineering" by Laine Campbell and
@charity.wtf. Learn how to manage your data stores and make them reliable, including operational visibility, security, infrastructure management, release management, and backup & recovery. amzn.to/4gYvxhD

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement [Perkins, Luc, Redmond, Eric, Wilson, Jim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

"Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" by @lucperkins.dev, Eric Redmond, and Jim Wilson. A practical, hands-on way to get experience with 7 different types of data stores, including both SQL and NoSQL, and to see their strengths and weaknesses. amzn.to/3BTZKhu

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems [Kleppmann, Martin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

"Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by @martin.kleppmann.com. The best guide to how data storage and distributed systems work that I've seen. A must-read for every dev. And best of all, a second edition is coming soon, co-authored by @chris.blue. amzn.to/4eExfTO

Here's a list of the best resources related to Chapter 9, "How to Store Data" of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery." Learn about relational DBs, NoSQL, NewSQL, queues, streams, object stores, CDNs, backup, recovery, and more: