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Tie up the loose ends you know you should be doing.

Data Encryption

Encrypt laptop drives and create project-specific secure volumes for storing API keys and configs

Gmail Backup

Securely back up your Gmail and Google Calendar data

Secure Servers

Setup servers with daemonized processes, remote monitoring, firewalls, email notifications, &c.

Dotfiles Management

Maintain your dotfiles in Git to quickly setup new machines with your handy keybindings

You’re a professional developer, so you totally already have backups. Duh!

So if I asked to buy your laptop directly out of your hands right now, how much would you demand? $3000? $10,000? $50,000?

The reality is, while your source code might be backed up in Git, you have a ton of valuable stuff that isn’t backed up: Things like API credentials, SSH keys, iOS signing certificates, and a decade of editor customizations.

Why risk of losing a week (or more!) of billable hours recovering from a stolen laptop or crashed server?

Why do we always put this off?

Look, I’m a developer too, and I know why you haven’t taken care of this already—it’s because software sucks. Software is complicated, fragile, and inconsistent.

You haven’t taken care of backups because you know it’ll go something like this:

• First you’ll pick one out of the dozens of open source projects that claim to solve your problem…
• then you’ll need to compile a new version of Ruby…
• then you’ll have to add some nonsense to your .bashrc…
• and then by hour three you’ll have to get real close to a large Tibetian yak.

And that’s just for data backups—once you start digging into password management, setting up HTTPS, securing virtual private servers, and git repository management, you can kiss your weekends goodbye.

Don’t waste your time reading man pages!

You could figure all this out yourself, but that’s a distraction: It’s time better spent getting paid by clients, leveling up your unique professional skills, or going outside hiking with your dog.

Besides, if you haven’t taken care of this yet, what are the chances you’re going to take care of it in the next month?

The DevOp lets you skip that nonsense and take care of everything right now. Each guide takes 20 minutes or less to complete, and you can run through ‘em in any order.

However, it’s not for everyone:

The DevOp is for professionals.

I’m going to be honest with you—I didn’t write the DevOp for you, I wrote it for my team.

My consulting firm specializes in bespoke tooling and custom visualizations in the energy industry, and I’ll be damned if any of us waste our time losing files, resetting passwords, or fumbling to reboot servers—we have better, more profitable, things to do.

That’s why the DevOp guides are straight to the point—and not just now, but forever: My team keeps the DevOp guides up-to-date because we’re using them all the time.

Tech deets.

All DevOp guides target the following platforms:

• MacOS 10.14 Mojave (Don’t upgrade to 10.15 Catalina, it’s not stable enough for professional use.)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Bionic Beaver.

We test all automated scripts and tooling against these platforms, because these are what we use. If you use other platforms, we assume it’s because you know what you’re doing (most of our guides will probably work fine, but don’t ask us for help compiling programs on your screamin’ DEC Alpha).

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If you have any questions or concerns before buying, just send us an email.

The DevOp is 100% guaranteed. The refund policy is simple: if you buy the DevOp and feel like it was misrepresented, then just send us an email within 60 days asking for a refund. We’ll refund your money immediately, no B.S.