Daiany Palacios
The joy of building a team from scratch
A team evolves every time someone leaves or joins. While I’ve gained experience adapting to existing team dynamics, building a team from...
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Daiany Palacios
Daiany Palacios
- May 13
- 3 min
Help! My DevOps team is stuck!
(Transcript of an ignite talk delivered at DevOpsDays Berlin 2024) You are a new "DevOps" engineer joining my team. We are a small...
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Daiany Palacios
- May 3, 2023
- 3 min
Full-stack DevOps Engineers... a myth?
(Transcript of an ignite talk delivered at the DevOpsDays Zurich 2023) About a year ago I was faced with the task of building a team from...
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Daiany Palacios
- Jan 27, 2023
- 2 min
The day I had ChatGPT in a job interview
This year my team is facing the challenge of scaling the application we take care of, which is why I've been trying to find a new...
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Daiany Palacios
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
An awakening on "Microaggressions"
Since early 2021 when I became an #IamRemarkable facilitator, I've been getting more and more involved in D&I topics. Especially since ...
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Daiany Palacios
- Jan 16, 2021
- 3 min
An Ubuntu moment: the day I experienced great motivational energy from a group of strangers
Just a couple of days ago I heard for the first time what Ubuntu really means. It was a kind of realisation to find out that it’s not ...
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Daiany Palacios
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
OKRing myself
I am starting 2021 with my own set of OKRs. And I can’t help to feel excited about it! It’s not that I am setting goals to myself for...
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Daiany Palacios
- Oct 20, 2020
- 4 min
Moving a big system to a container platform
So, you couldn’t give an effort estimate (you had no idea how long it was going to take) and you hadn’t clearly (measurably) formulated...
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Daiany Palacios
- Nov 6, 2019
- 3 min
Growing into new roles beyond the cloud
(Transcript of an Ignite Talk delivered at O’Reilly Velocity + Software Architecture Berlin 2019) Last February my department had a...
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Daiany Palacios
- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min
The project manager’s got some unix skills
There is this “innovation day” every friday at work where everyone has the chance to try out some new ideas, technologies, tools, etc....
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Daiany Palacios
- Jul 10, 2019
- 3 min
My first Coding Dojo
There were regular coding dojos in my department until early this year. I never participated before because I was on that phase of my ...
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Daiany Palacios
- Apr 15, 2019
- 2 min
In the Sysadmin-Ops world… without fear!
I made the jump. I am into this now. It’s been roughly half a month and I still find myself going through my adaptation plan on my head...
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Daiany Palacios
- Apr 2, 2019
- 5 min
The scariest move in my career: “I do devops now”
Bob: (Developer from the neighbor team): Hey Daiany! I see you are closer to us now (he and his team sit across the hall next to my new ...
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Daiany Palacios
- Jan 15, 2019
- 4 min
Back to my roots as a software developer… Why?
Ever since I got my hands for the first time on a computer when I was 9, I knew one day I would become a “computer engineer”. And so I...
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Daiany Palacios
- Jul 10, 2018
- 3 min
Why not trying a quickie?
Quickies are underestimated, in my opinion. I’ve tried them a couple of times and it was really cool. Ways better than people would...
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Daiany Palacios
- Jun 10, 2018
- 6 min
The story of a gift exchange: giving & asking for feedback at a community conference
A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of participating as a speaker at the second edition of the DevOpsDays in Kiel (check my...
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Daiany Palacios
- May 25, 2018
- 5 min
We are all unicorns! - My impressions of the DevOpsDays Kiel 2018
We are all unicorns! Those were part the starting words of Sabine, the conference chair, at the beginning of day one. And I couldn’t...
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Daiany Palacios
- May 23, 2018
- 1 min
FoMO at the enterprise: What we can do to stay productive
This was the topic of an ignite talk I gave last year (2017) twice: First at the DevOpsDays Stockholm :-) … And later at the Ignite Kiel...
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Daiany Palacios
- May 22, 2018
- 2 min
My journey in tech so far… and the path to starting this blog!
I started my career as a software developer. In 2011 I joined Kuehne+Nagel in Hamburg as a java developer for the KN FreightNet project....
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