Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are few quotes from the books I read recently. You can find the collection of books I ready here  https://jnsuryaprakash.blogspot.com/2009/03/books-i-read.html .  Lord, protect me from my friends, I can take care of my enemies. Gratitude is a burden, revenge is a pleasure. Dead people receive more flower than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. Never grab a sword by blade, always on the handle side. A wise man profits from enemies better than a fool from his friends. Thomas Alva Edison declined to share Nobel prize with Tesla in 1915, because he don't want Tesla to get recognition. Fools learn from their mistakes, greats learn from others mistakes. Changing the job is more like buying a house rather than buying a dress. Too many give up because there is too much give up around them. Think if it is positive humor or negative humor. You can do anything you want, but you have to believe yourself first. Hyper competitive - win all the times.  Self

The wiki definition for Technical debt says  "Implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution". No body ever plans to add technical debt , it gets added as part of the culture of the organization. In the present world of speed to market teams are working under huge pressure of timelines and this is causing people to take short cuts to deliver in time. Thats why I like the motto "you own your ops". That way we will be more focused on self-service,  monitoring and self-healing aspects instead of dev teams throwing over fence to the operational side of the IT. Through every phase of software development life cycle we are adding technical debts. while developing stories we may not have time to investigate all possible scenarios. We are not able to invest enough time analyzing all data decisions. So, we might have taken 80/20 approach and ended up with 20 % technical debt right off the bat. Then during design we don't have time to develop API b

I took a resolution NOT to be controversial after getting harassed socially few years back because of my views about M.F. Hussain. Since then I tried to stay within boundaries and avoid controversies. More than dozen blog posts I still kept as draft is the witness to that resolution. Now I think I am breaking that promise (in views of few people). But I want to speak about it, express my thoughts on Black Lives Matter. If you are saying all lives matter then you are treating vulnerable and less vulnerable same way. We as humans developed a social system to prioritize Children, elderly, disabled, women in case of emergencies. That shows the culture of humans and how we are different than the animals in the wild. From time to time we prioritize and re-adjust to the circumstances of the society. We as society grown from NO voting right to Women, NO voting right to Afro-Americans to a society of equal rights. We are NOT living in the best society every lived on earth, we are in the pursuit