AI is going to have a big impact on the world. I don’t think there’s anyone that can dispute that claim right now. Between machine learning and some of the newer LLM’s like GPT-4 and LLAMA we’re going to be able to automate more and more complex tasks, generate content…

My Journey Through The Past Week — This article was originally published on LinkedIn on July 12, 2023. The path to people leadership looks different for everyone. For some, it’s a natural extension of their personality, the kind of people who naturally take charge and lead by charisma. For others its more of a struggle; those of…

SRE, Organizations, and Leadership — To say that the past year or so has been a learning experience would be an understatement. From the job hunt, to onboarding at my previous company, working with my former boss, leading the SRE team, and much more — so much of the last 12 months has been challenging…

Starting over. We’ve become accustomed to always moving forward, always looking to the next thing, always pressing on to the nearest milestone, release date, or weekend. The Next Thing is the best thing, because why would you want to look backwards? Backwards is for losers, beta males, and has-beens. Backwards…

Bad managers can make a good team bad, a bad team worse, and in either case will make you want to pull your hair out and scream into the void. — This post was originally published at https://www.peterfraedrich.com/5-habits-of-bad-managers/ We’ve all been there, had those jobs, and worked for those people: bad managers. Bad managers can make a good team bad, a bad team worse, and in either case will make you want to pull your hair out and scream into the…

All of the things that I wish I had known when I was becoming a first-time manager. — This post was originally published at https://www.peterfraedrich.com/5-tips-for-new-managers-things-i-wish-i-had-known/ My brother called me out of the blue the other day. “Hey, I got something I want to run by you real quick,” he said, “I’m applying for a manager position and could use your perspective on some stuff.” In all honesty, I…

The ability to drill down into the minute details and still understand how they impact the whole is, in my estimation, one of the greatest skills that an engineer can have regardless of engineering specialty. — This post was originally published at https://www.peterfraedrich.com/deep-skills/ With a single blog post, Netflix showed the world that they have probably the best engineering team on the planet. And I don’t think it’s even close right now. What they showed was an engineering team that is perfectly capable of operating at…

There’s nothing wrong with the cloud, per se, but there’s certainly enough to be unhappy about that might make someone contemplate the next move for their architecture. — This post was originally published at https://www.peterfraedrich.com/what-comes-after-the-cloud/ Prognosticating on the future of things, especially technology, and even more especially in the cloud/devops/infra/SRE world, is fraught with dangers seen and unseen. At best you look like a wizard, a modern day Nostradamus able to predict the rather fickle winds of change…

I applied for close to 500 jobs and learned some things along the way. — This post was originally published at https://www.peterfraedrich.com/i-applied-for-483-jobs/ I was laid off from my position in June 2022 and suddenly found myself back in the job hunt with the rest of the 250,000 people who also got laid off around that time. I did a short stint back at a previous…