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2024 year in review
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…
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2023 reflections, 2024 things to come
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…
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Platform is the new Infra Ops?
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…
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AWS Summit Stockholm 2023
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…
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Architect’ing fast is the key, until its not…
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…
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A year in Sweden
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…
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Reinventing yourself (in 2022)
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…
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Book Review – Hell Yeah or No
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.…
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Moving to Cloud
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…
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Breaking smartphone addiction
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…
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John Lennon – Imagine
This is the very first piece I wrote for an internal writers portal at my first job back in 2014. I found it one of my early free blogs on WordPress. I have copied it here along with all its imperfections to remind myself where I started from. My journey of English or foreign music…