Scribble Shiva

This blog entry is primarily recorded for Dev/Sys/Ops people who have little to no experience with javascript. I have been using different services offered by different cloud providers for some time now. For any cloud provider, the learning curve is linear and the only catch is you should have prior knowledge of the service you are consuming, be it VM, load balancer, database, code repository or container-related services. Just like any random guy in IT, my first cloud experience came with AWS, I deployed some hobby projects to experiments, and I also used the same to deliver some MVP for official work. There was a difference between working as a sole developer utilizing personal account and using IAM under enterprise cloud account but I guess they are all part of the learning curve. The second provider I worked on is Google Cloud, I wanted to evaluate their GKE service. This was about 3 years back, some months ago I came across an offer from Google, the offered an SRE course with a ce

I am a straight talker, I proudly wear it on my shoulder. I like it when people can trust my words and identifies me as a person who "talk the talk, walk the walk". A year ago someone in my workplace told me that I should work on being diplomatic since direct communication might hurt relationships. As much as I'd like to argue that I'm not looking for long term friendship in office and I'm here to complete my task, as I level up in the ladder, my vantage point changes and so does my perspective about the workplace communication. Now I find myself in a place where I have to communicate more, about the same thing to multiple stakeholders with different level of business and technical knowledge. It is getting increasingly difficult to continue being 'the straight talker', which I regarded highly in the past. Sometimes it is not just about knowledge of the audience, it is more about the style of communication. I'm Indian, and my domicile has not changed si