And it’s something that you probably do anyway — In my line of work, I read code all day, every day, be it code reviews of new features or making out head or tail of old ones. If you’re like me, you might even be going through code bases over decades old. That’s almost three centuries in the computer…

A novel about IT, DevOps, and helping your business win — First off, it is a novel. Need I say more? It has all the makings of a great story. There is our protagonist, the hero, Bill Palmer. He gets a mysterious phone call from HR, and a surprise promotion he doesn’t seem too excited about. The mess on his hands…

Are you asking the right questions? — There’s more to software development than writing code. If you check out my journey on building an app from scratch, writing code was one of the last things I did. Design discussions are my favorite part of the software development process. The discussions are highly intelligent, and it’s great to…

I feel like I belong. — A Brief Introduction Year 2009 I was in an all-girls school briefly when I was young. We were a class of 20 teenagers, and there was plenty of angst and drama to fuel a Spanish telenovela in all of us combined. What I remember distinctly is, there was never discomfort. We could talk to each…

It’s a little bit more than daydreaming. — I wake up. The world’s softest comforter keeps me in bed for another 20 mins, after which I finally wake up and make my bed. I brew some coffee, with freshly ground coffee beans, while listening to some happy morning playlist. I put on my workout clothes, and head to…

My Struggle with Self-Love — I’m gonna be totally honest here. I’ve indulged in a lot of productivity porn, read countless books on self-help, and read even more about mindfulness and mental health. I’m not sure if I subscribe to all the advice they bestow. The one statement that irks me when I am being…

Devs are from Venus, Ops are from Mars — Folks, your girl has graduated in life. I was looped into a production outage, and I had my first tussle with the Operations team of my application. If I view it objectively, it wasn’t so bad. The heightened emotions and stress of the situation were more responsible for the raised…

I do, and this is how I am breaking the cycle. — Here goes another personal flaw admission on the internet: I tend to suffer from productivity guilt. I find it hard to let go and relax. Every moment not spent doing something that has some tangible, measurable output is a moment of my life wasted. …

I got my first Medium hit by following these. — While I started writing online only a little while back, the act has always fascinated me. It is akin to magic. Something that is a cloud of ideas and thoughts nagging in your head, pouring out on paper, ready for someone else to devour. But it’s not magic. …