Bill Johnson·May 10I Believe That We Will Win!With the Men’s World Cup coming to Canada, Mexico, and the United States this summer, I found myself thinking about the U.S. supporters…
Bill Johnson·Jan 22, 20232023 Personal OKRs2 years ago I started to set yearly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for myself to both get more comfortable using the OKR framework as…
Bill Johnson·Apr 10, 2022Double-Blind Coding InterviewsIf you have done a coding interview at any point in the last 20+ years, you have likely been provided a problem to solve by the…
Bill Johnson·Jan 3, 20222022 Personal OKRsin 2021 I attempted to set (and meet) a collection of personal Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This was an exercise in both getting more…
Bill Johnson·Oct 21, 2021Learning By Interviewing On-Call EngineersRecently in our organization we’ve been doing interviews with our on-call engineers across the teams. The goal of these interviews is to…A response icon1A response icon1
Bill Johnson·Jun 17, 2021My Running Mantra: PBRWhen I’m not doing computer-y type stuff, I’m typically out running (preferably on Cascade Range trails). As I’ve run longer and longer…
Bill Johnson·May 28, 2021SRE Cultural ValuesRecently in our Site Reliability Engineering organization in Azure, we established a set of cultural values that we hold ourselves and each…
Bill Johnson·Apr 19, 2021Earth Day 2021Thursday April 22, 2021 is Earth Day and as I think back on the last year, one big theme for me has been the value of individual…
Bill Johnson·Feb 19, 2021#LetsGreenTheWeb Together!Every website you use runs on a machine somewhere that pulls power (and likely cooling) to do its job and render the page on your screen…A response icon1A response icon1
Bill Johnson·May 29, 2020Sustainability in Software EngineeringWe are quickly approaching an inflection point that introduces a third dimension to the software engineering field: Sustainable Engineering