Everyday DevOps - New Substack: Engineering Managers Toolbox

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Everyday DevOps

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Engineering Managers Toolbox

Over the years, I’ve built products, led teams, and worn the many hats that come with being an engineering manager. Along the way, I developed a set of practical tools, frameworks, strategies, and hard-earned lessons that help managers lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.

From this, I've created a new substack: Engineering Managers Tookbox.

If you are an engineering manager as well as a DevOps practitioner, join me there as well.

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Ollama on a MacBook Pro M1

Getting started with your own LLM is super easy to ollama.

On a MacBook Pro M1 you have a GPU ready to go. Running the following commands:

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brew install ollama
ollama serve
ollama run qwen

Will start up ollama on port 11434 with the qwen model installed. Then you can add it to your own langchain chatbot, or curl it directly.

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curl http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
  "model": "qwen",
  "prompt": "Explain containers like I’m five."
}'

I've detailed how to get this running on a MacBook and Windows in my article: Supercharge Your Local AI

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What this week has in store

Last week was a lot of updates to the Everyday DevOps blog, fixing errors, adding more details and making sure it's as developer-friendly as possible.

This week, I'm going to dive into how to replicate my own development process into a Langgraph-based chatbot. Hoping to short-circuit the development process.

See you next week!

Mark C Allen

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