Similar to The Five Stages of Grief , starting a new job is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. I originally started writing this blog post three years ago, a year after joining my current company and never finished or published it! At the time, I’d wanted to capture my thoughts…

An alternative title for this post might have been, “Why can’t anyone agree on a singular definition for Site Reliability Engineering (aka SRE)?” I’ve spent some of my career in this space and over time, have become very opinionated about my beliefs. …

It hurts to even write this story, but it is one of those things I never want to forget. I was watching the 2019 USC vs UCLA College Football Game when an announcement came on that the Director for ‘The Spirit of Troy’, the USC Trojan Marching Band was retiring…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the massive British Airway’s Outage that took down their backend computer systems. This outage stranded 75,000 customers for over three days. If that wasn’t bad enough, now it looks like they’re placing the blame solely on the IT Person. …

Uber is a Marketplace that matches riders and drivers. In the same way that Ebay lets a seller offer an item, and multiple buyers bid on that item, Uber does the same thing when you request a ride. …

In the 1968 movie by Stanley Kubrick titled 2001, there is an Artificially Intelligent Computer by the name of HAL who pilots a spaceship full of astronauts on its way to Jupiter. HAL is sentient and without giving much away the astronauts on board decide that they need to shut…

If you’ve never been asked this question in an interview or answered it with your current manager then I feel sorry for you. I’m fond of both asking and answering this question because no matter where you are in your career it will force you to deal with an absolute…

“You can do anything you want in life!” That line is such bullshit. Especially when it comes to your career and especially if that career happens to be in a STEM Field (Science, Technology, Education and Math). That line should come with a bunch of stipulations. …

Walled Gardens on the Internet are dangerous. Anyone that used the Internet before 2000 with the likes of AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy can surely remember the days when users of one of those particular services could only email and chat with each other. Where content created on one service could…