Where to buy cheap turpentine

Just before midnight and again just after sunrise this morning one of my engineering teams sent each other some messages about turpentine.

Not literal turpentine of course. I’m speaking figuratively. The team was double and triple checking a production system that had problems yesterday.

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” - Picasso

My teams live and breathe reliability engineering. They know the management and maintenance of the production environment puts Iress in a position to help our clients perform better every day.

From hardware, networks and operating systems to backups, upgrades and monitoring. This is their turpentine.

When no one talks about them, that’s when these engineers know things are going well. Their hands covered in paint. Their finished paintings hang in the background.

They are the behind the scenes Picasso’s of Iress.