Settled down

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Jul 062014
 

I’m working for the big chip company now, sound a little bit weird, though ๐Ÿ˜‰ .

Anyway, I’m sitting in backend team focusing on DevOps, I guess I will be in this mixed role till we find a dedicated DevOps guy. I guess whenever that happens, I’ve already finished monitoring facility (plus logistical stuffs like on-call schedule, etc.), and should have finished the plan to migrate from Rackspace to AWS.

Everything works smoothly so far except git – I admit current company is using git in a modern way, but I don’t think previous company was doing something wrong. Anyway, I believe people do have different ideas of how to use git, I just have to fit into the company’s style.

I don’t quite like saltstack although I’m still trying to get familiar with it. However, before I raise this as a concern to the team, I’d like to make sure everything that saltstack is doing can be done by cfengine.

Ah yea, also need to evaluate Shinken as it’s a pure Python solution, and “we are a python house”.

Life is a circle?

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Dec 102011
 

Life may be a circle, but I wish it is not a flat circle ๐Ÿ™‚ .

I’m packing now, walking in the nearly empty apartment I found that it looks like whenever I just moved in 18 months ago. I cannot believe I moved in so many stuffs that after several times of flying back to Beijing with big suitcase, plus 4 pack of clothes, and 3 boxes of miscellaneous goodies, I still have enough to fill up two suitcase that will fly back to Beijing with me week after the next.

I wish my career life won’t be a circle either but seems to be some sort of true ๐Ÿ™ . Good thing is that after acting as different management roles, I found out that I can deal with engineering and production jobs easier but not business positions, at all. However, 18 months experience gave me great confidence on dealing with brand new teams, while I was really not good at this in old days.

I wish my technical skills can be a circle ๐Ÿ˜› . I’m playing with NetBeans to do Android development, while Xcode for OSX and iOS. There is not much progress so far but I do wish I can pick client side development as soon as possible.

Jumping between US and China, I think the most significant change is that I’m now feeling comfortable with travelling around, even to a strange place.

Too much to say … in two weeks I’m going back to US, wish everything will be fine and I’m going to planning for my next 10 years.

Stay tuned.