10 Years in the Industry
In May 2020, I went past a quiet miletone. I completed 10 years in the IT industry. I remember interviewing for my first job. In retrospect, what they wanted was a (Techical) Program Manager. During my interview, they realised that I can code and they decided to see how I would do given a programming…
New Country and New Job
I thought when I moved my website to WordPress, I’d blog more. If anything, I’ve blogged less. But hey, I have a good reason. About 4 months ago, I moved to Dublin, Ireland. This was to start my job at The Search Engine company. Today I finish 4 months in Dublin. It feels like much…
Hanging up my red fedora
Feb 12th was my last day at Red Hat. I sent a very similar version of this blog post as a note to my colleagues as well. It’s been a fun nearly 3 years working at Red Hat and wearing the Red Hat fedora[1]. I’ve had a wonderful time working for Red Hat both from…
The Funniest Incident Postmortem
Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!). Generally, if you want to run a task at the end of every Jenkins job whether the job has passed or failed, you have two…
Getting rpcbind to work without IPv6
This advice is going to be useful to a small subset of folks. But it’s useful nonetheless. With us being nearly exhausted of IPv4 addresses, we should probably not be disabling IPv6, but there are some rare situations where some tests depend on IPV4 only. The Glusterfs regression test framework makes a lot of assumptions.…
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