Ramblings

Fear is a debilitating and robust sensation. A feeling of fear can cause one to lose faith in themselves, to give up before realizing success. Inversely some can focus fear and create a galvanizing effect from it, drawing power and inspiration. Fear has been prevalent over the last year, both within myself and shared throughout communities. It has brought out the good as well as the bad in people. Fissures have formed between friends and families as we fight to find commonality and comfort....

Familiarity feels like a warm comfy blanket to most, a place of comfort and understanding. You are comfortable with your “known world.” What lies beyond this space is unfamiliar, scary, potentially dangerous. Fear aligns with our innate survival instincts. Though in the day and age, how relevant is this form of fear? Especially in the realm of building up our toolbelt. I find it easier to stay focused on the areas that I already understand, languages, or technologies that I already “know....

As you wander through the maze of your career, you may find yourself standing at the edge of a seemingly unpassable obstacle. As you stare in disbelief at what seems impossible, remember how you got here in the first place. You put in the effort, developed a process, designed a feature, or gained some credentials. Whatever it may have been, you ultimately sized up the obstacle, planned your approach, and took the initiative to overcome it....

Not long ago, “craftsperson” was a title given to a driven individual that had excelled at a specific trade. An obsessive focus to create to the best of their ability and accel at their craft. In the same capacity, a “handyperson” is a title given to a person who may not excel at any one singular trade but is aptly capable across many. In today’s technology-driven world, I come across many gifted engineers of both backgrounds....

In this modern age of cloud computing; one must step back and think. Not that long ago agility was constrained by how fast you could plan, order, provision and deploy the hardware. It was for lack of better description “hard.” These days though it’s a matter of a few clicks, some templating or potentially an automated scaling event that enables much the same result. Often we forget just how much operations teams take for granted....