Surya Prakash Jayanti

We all know chess improves critical thinking. In my personal experience it brings your logical ability before your emotional response, this is going to help you a lot with daily life. Apart from developing creativity and improving confidence, it works both sides of the brain. You are NOT preparing for competition and you are NOT planning on becoming grand master. Just by simply playing one game of chess every day either with computer or individuals, will help you a lot in decision making process. If you don't have time for a complete game you can try puzzles. If you register in chess.com, they have daily free puzzles you can solve. Just solve puzzles and play a game if you have time. They also have weekly free learning videos, if you are interested in improving the game. I slap my hand whenever I am not able to think beyond 2-3 moves. Sometimes I feel like "why you are not able to think about this simple thing". That will keep your brain challenged.  Lot of incidents in y...

When I say symmetric multi-cloud deployment strategy I mean you are deploying the same workload in two or more public cloud providers and on to your private data center at the same time with the same CICD. In this case life will always be easy, if you are dealing with IaaS or K8's clusters. PaaS may not be ideal as most of the time it will be purpose built platform. I am not even talking about SaaS. Why do you need symmetric multi-cloud model Bursting: Private data centers first and cloud to burst is the best use case for leveraging any public cloud vendor, that way still the keys to kingdom will be in your hand. Price negotiation: You can confidently negotiate the price with public cloud vendors and it doesn't  take lot of time to switch in worst case scenario. Do nothing cost: Lets say in case of situations like COVID you can quickly ramp down all the public cloud billing and stick to your private data centers. Imagine you are Uber and COVID hit your trends, if majority of yo...

Lot of companies are forced to allow work from home due to COVID situation. Many of these companies are the one's hesitating employees going away from offices. Some of these lessons learned by companies/employees will definitely shape up the future behaviors differently. Lets look at some stats about working from home: We have around 12 million tech employees in US, they can easily work from home. As per 2020 stats, 5 million employees are permanently Working From Home. That is 3.6% of entire US workforce. There is a possibility 43% employees can work from home in the total US workforce There are at least 10 states in US that already have around 5% population working from home like California, Texas, Washington,  New York, Virginia, Florida etc., Twitter, Square, Facebook (50%), Walmart Tech etc., are taking big strides towards work from home FOREVER. There are legal, compliance, tax and immigration implications for any work from home decision. We know rules will always evolve...

I have been listening to Puri Musings, as a fan of that Telugu director I really liked most of his podcasts. One thing I like more about it is, its runtime. Each musings are less than 3 minutes mostly. I highly recommend these podcasts for his different thought process. I may not agree with everything he says, but most of his ideas are worth listening and the way he narrates. https://youtu.be/UdySpwc90z0 I like about his thoughts on #3 Hunting, #6 Trash bag, #8 complaints. Few quotes I liked are. There is NO perfect Husband. Even if you get god as your husband you will still cry, because Lord Rama's wife is the most cried wife. Quote from another episode, The man on the peak should be light weight. Unhappiness is only option for humans, trees and animals doesn't have that option. #14 some people are searching soul and some people trying to reach Mars. #17 I can't name the episode but its worth listening :-) #18 Lakdi ka pool: Don't care about society/prestige , just sol...

I am trying to address when companies should orchestrate cloud providers offerings as managed service in their IT portfolio. This article doesn't take a stance of cloud providers. First thing first, size of the enterprise matters. If it is small or medium, it doesn't make lot of sense to form a big division to make managed offerings for cloud. If IT spend is small (< 5Million) or medium (< 100 million), it makes sense to use cloud provider services with some governance and without any orchestration layers. Remember more than 20% of your IT budget might be in Shadow IT. If you are a big enterprise and you are going to play a lot in the technology field based on your customer base, then it makes sense to have your own Center of Excellence with Governance and also with orchestration. Manufacturing, transportation and some services may NOT always need lot of spend on IT. On the other hand Financial services, Retail, Restaurant  and Healthcare might need lot of IT spend due to...

Invest in yourself, you will never be disappointed. I want to share my story of strong morning routine. I have been a morning runner since Sep 2018. Few things got added since the pandemic began in March. Increased my run a little bit more every day. Now I am running 2.5 Miles @ 6.2 MPH. From Sep 2018 to now I completed close to 43 accumulated marathon miles. Here is a screen shot, I lost 12 of my marathons to previous phone change, thats why you only see 31. I added daily routine as shown in picture below after Work From Home started around March. Roughly in a week I complete 300 crunches, 200 pushups and 100 biceps and 15 miles with a fasting day. Continuing reading books, writing articles and learning new topics on cloud, teaching chess to my son. I do few minutes of meditation every morning and play a game of chess/puzzles every evening right after I close my work for the day. Few things I may not be doing right... Hooked up with few Netflix series like "Better Call Saul"...

Once upon a time there was a big forest named Chugach, coyotes used to be the king of the jungle. As the forest is too big , some Bisons came crossing the river and started settling there. Slowly over the years Bisons started killing coyotes and took over the Chugach forest. Bison is the new leader of the forest now. That forest has lot of green pasture and beautiful landscape. This forest has lot of empty land, so the Bison invited animals from other forests  to come and co-live with it. The animals struggling for survival in other forests became interested. Peacocks living in Chandak jungle , bears living in Spruce forest, Dogs living in Lacandon jungle heard about this new forest and started moving one by one. In the early days Bison wants to build eco system and encouraged animals from other forests. Time passed by, Bison felt there are enough animals now, so started saying NO to new animals. The dogs that can't fit the rules started sneaking in. Slowly bisons started feel...