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...