It’s been almost a year since I first started out on my SRE journey. Having only a vague idea about clusters and Kubernetes in general, I started in the role. And the very first word that hit me was, “Operator”. This is an attempt at capturing the thoughts I had upon hearing that word. What I thought was an Operator Operator is like your Robot, it waits for your instructions and does things on a cluster....
Why Does Competitive Programming Exist
Competitive Programming is a Sport that opens the door for both novice and experienced to take the stage and battle against each other for glory. The notion of such competitions create a way for the grittiest of programmers to learn and showcase their talent. The contests themselves take place from the High School level to University Level. It’s a battle of algorithmists and math enthusiasts to pit their heads together to find the quickest computational techniques....
Why would an SDE become and SRE
The why It’s been almost a year since I moved from a dedicated Software Engineering role to a Site Reliability Engineering role which has a majority Software Engineering component as well. The primary reason for this shift was because I started to become bored of the monotony of monolithic Software maintenance. I have been working in the Software Development and Software Engineering field for the last 10 years. I have experienced both Service oriented and Product oriented Software Development in my career....