Why I'm Writing Again

and What this space will be

Long time, no see!

It’s been more than 8 years since I stopped writing on my personal site hadoopandcloud.com. I failed to renew the hosting and all the data was gone. It went viral during the Big data phase as it was the only site with detailed curriculum for CCA131 cloudera certification that time. The old data is still available in the wordpress account https://hadoopandcloud.wordpress.com/category/cca131/

During it’s popularity, multiple people reached out/interacted with me. I even made some money through affiliate marketing and also got a udemy course deal. It opened so many opportunities. I could’ve been … ok, i’m ruminating about the past. I’ll stop.

Outside of my site, I was writing in medium as well under https://medium.com/@kannan_ak

I know everybody loves talking about like back in the day, I was so fit, back in the day I used to study hard. Back in the day this, back in the day that. Yada, yada. Ok fine, What are you doing now?

For the last one year, I’ve been wanting to write, but for no clear reason. I kept procrastinating. I still can’t figure out, whether I love writing or I love the idea of writing. I felt so much friction in starting this, let alone actively writing. But one thing I knew for sure is I regretted not writing. I regretted not keep up with learning, sharing things. It’s never too late. So here we go again.

I joined Glean as a SRE six months ago and I got my hands on so many things there. Given it’s a single tenant setup, with 800+ customers having dedicated GCP/AWS projects, I’m facing so many interesting problems at work. More than writing code, I love debugging and fixing things. So yeah, I decided to write my learnings, observations, all things related to infra and reliability.