Dependencies

The last two weeks were hectic. Deployment and making the sufficient stuff necessary for deployment is tough. I tend to really appreciate those people who stay the whole night resolving production issues. May it be Garbage Collection issues with the server/java or CPU spikes. These seemed to be problems which took most of the time.

Packaging is also a problem not to be taken lightly. Resolving the dependencies and making sure that no major update goes unnoticed is a tedious job. Just to look into the set of packages is boring and one tends to lose patience quite frequently. I still think that having test packages and using them on a QA machine makes sense only if the QA is not meant to replicate the actual production instance. If they do, then the packages that must be installed must be stable packages. YUM is be given great credit for the fantastic work they do.

Back after a wait

Its been some time since my last post. And frankly I had a lot of work. Getting systems to work in Yahoo is a tough job. To understand a system, evaluate and determine the best approach ought to be a highly paid job. I have been thinking about the growth and progress of my career and Im still uncertain. 

We, in the BTM house, have been discussing a lot about investments in land and real estate. Tourism is an industry which is starting to catch up in parts of Kerala aand having some land and setting up a small tourist spot is an ideal way to earn a return. 

The personal life is starting to suck a bit and ideas are hard to come by. Telling stories to Binil has been something that I have been doing for some time. It might pay off one day and probably I would publish a story.