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title: 2017 in review
date: 2017-12-31
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At the end of the year it's time to do a review of what I've been through this year! It's been a challenging year: switching teams at Shopify, leaving Canada, moving to the UK and a lot of travel in the meanwhile.

## January

My team at Shopify shipped a year-long project, and I started thinking about new challenges. I spent most of my career working with Rails, and I realized that I want to explore more areas of Site Reliability Engineering. So-called "Pods" team was one of the teams at Shopify that worked on the edge of SRE (scaling Shopify horizontally across multiple datacenters), but at the same time, that kind of work still required deep knowledge of Ruby and Rails. In middle January I joined the team.

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layout: post
title: 2017 in review
date: 2017-12-31
comments: true
published: true
image: "/assets/post-images/2017-in-review/jan-02.jpg"
---

At the end of the year it's time to do a review of what I've been through this year! It's been a challenging year: switching teams at Shopify, leaving Canada, moving to the UK and a lot of travel in the meanwhile.

## January

My team at Shopify shipped a year-long project, and I started thinking about new challenges. I spent most of my career working with Rails, and I realized that I want to explore more areas of Site Reliability Engineering. So-called "Pods" team was one of the teams at Shopify that worked on the edge of SRE (scaling Shopify horizontally across multiple datacenters), but at the same time, that kind of work still required deep knowledge of Ruby and Rails. In middle January I joined the team.

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  <img width="720" height="540" src="/assets/post-images/2017-in-review/jan-02.jpg" />
  <img width="720" height="540" src="/assets/post-images/2017-in-review/jan-03.jpg"  />
  <img width="720" height="540" src="/assets/post-images/2017-in-review/jan-04.jpg"  />
  <img width="720" height="540" src="/assets/post-images/2017-in-review/jan-01.jpg"  />
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