“You need to be visible and influence more to grow in your career” was the gist of feedback that I had received and ignored a few times during my career as an individual contributor. I didn’t find such feedback useful the first few times, as I didn’t really understand what it means to influence, why it matters, or how to influence.
We’re living in interesting times. Till 4–5 years ago, infrastructure used to be locked by review boards and tickets. Open source has been slowly changing this world. Take OpenStack, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, you name it. ...
It’s been just over three years since I started working on building a fairly large cloud infrastructure at eBay. Our initial focus was to make infrastructure programmable and to enable agility through self-service APIs with some checks and balances for efficiency, security and availability. ...
At eBay and PayPal, we been a power user of OpenStack to provide infrastructure building blocks via OpenStack services. I had the opportunity to share details of our OpenStack journey during a keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver on May 19, 2015. Here is the video and the slides.
