Month: March 2015

Five things serving in the military can teach you about maintaining a production environment

Don’t worry, there will be no “kill or be killed” or “death before dishonor” slogans here.
I do not work in a place where the production environment is responsible for people lives. No one would die if I mess up, or even if I really really mess up. A lot of people, however, will have to look for new jobs. With this in mind, let’s see what lessons from the military would benefit you in maintaining your production environment.

 

Not working is bad. Blows up in your face is worse

No one wants to hear “click” when you expected “bang”.

No one wants to take a look at your online store in the morning and see an error message. Your potential users will wander away, and you now lost 100% of your potential earnings. That’s a bad scenario, and it is tested for. How fast does the site show? Does the home page look good on an obscure browser that only runs on mobile devices from 20 years ago? Very important indeed.

“Kaboom” when you expected “bang” is worse.

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Hey, there’s a blogging course blog post on my blog. Wait… what?

I’ve been listening, in the past few years, to a lot of entrepreneurship and blogging related podcasts. Add to that a lot of reading. I knew, for a long time, that a blog will help me brand myself, and will give Google something to return when searching my name, due to my social networking non existence. But I didn’t do anything about it.

One reason is pure laziness (I mean, having very little time with my full time high tech job, commute and parenting two children. But also laziness).

But there were two more reasons:

I got many good tips from various podcasters and bloggers, dispersed over multiple locations and time, never all in the same view.

A lot of the tips and guides are very high level. They give valid and important recommendations, which are almost at the philosophical level. I needed someone to hold my hand, while giving that necessary little kick in the back side.

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