always on a journey
2024 was a roller coaster of a ride. In my last year s post, I had a few themes that I wanted to spend my time on. Here s a quick glance on how they turned out Category General Theme Status / Comments Sharpen writing skills This was harder than I thought. There isn t a [ ]
Quote of the year Focus on things you can control, ignore the rest The dichotomy of control Stoics 2023, in my early 30s, it is the first year that I felt the effects of stability. I didn t have to worry about stuff that I have been dealing on and off since I graduated [ ]
Recently I met someone with heavy Infra Ops background at a conference. They made a comment We are going back to old ways of working, Platform is the new Ops team . In that moment, I didn t have anything to respond with. A cup of coffee and some leisure time later, I find this statement [ ]
My CFP was selected for the community booth lightening talk for AWS Summit Stockholm 2023. It was my second year in row at the community booth and I had a story to tell. This was a bit different than my usual talks. This wasn t a deep dive into a service. This was rather a story [ ]
Reflections of a new cloud architect In my 8+ years career as a developer, consultant and recently as Cloud Architect, I have worked with companies of all scales. I have had a taste of multi national corporate, mid size product companies and startups alike. All these places have had different set of challenges, but there [ ]
About a year ago, on 16th May 2021, amidst heavy lockdown in India, I packed 25 kg of cloths, spices, assortment of itty bitty things in a suitcase and set off towards a new chapter in life. I had to apply for an e-pass from police to make this journey. All eCommerce and stores were [ ]
In retrospect of last two years, I created an opinionated list meta skills that could help add little more meaning to our monotonous lives. #1 Ask for what you want. If you don t ask, the answer is always no. A few influencers have made this mainstream these days and I am happy they did. We [ ]
The modern mind is over stimulated, the modern body under stimulated -Naval Ravikant Attention is the currency of today s digital world. There are a lot of things that seek a piece of your attention, which has a limited quota. We are bombarded with tons of content. This adds a lot of noise to our life. [ ]
I wrote a twitter thread in December 2020 in an attempt to collate advice I had given to a bunch of people who were looking for a career transition to cloud. It was received relatively well. Its time to convert it into a blog post. Our default choice of cloud for this post would be [ ]
Things that “The Social Dilemma” missed in the documentary. The Social Dilemma is a great documentary that should have been published a few years ago. It’s a one of a kind film that focuses on the down sides and business model of the big social media corporations. It touches on quite a few questions around [ ]