Ian Miell is a partner at consultancy Container Solutions, and an author of books on Bash, Git, Terraform and Docker. He explains to Craig how writing - whether runbooks, blog posts, training courses, or “real” books, can help you learn and make your team more effective.

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Zwischenzugs
Business Value, Soccer Canteens, Engineer Retention, and the Bricklayer Fallacy
Zwischenzug and zugzwang in chess
Ian’s books:
- Learn Bash The Hard Way
- Learn Git The Hard Way
- Learn Terraform The Hard Way
- All three in a bundle
- Docker in Practice
Tcl
Why are enterprises so slow?
Erlang
Episode 164, with Daniel Walsh
‘AWS vs K8s’ is the new ‘Windows vs Linux’
The Runbooks Project
ITIL
Consultancy:
Finance topologies:
- Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
- If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance
- Conway’s Law
Ian Miell on Twitter

Writing, Learning and Tech, with Ian Miell

Kubernetes Podcast from Google