And learned a few things along the way — It happened more than a decade ago. While I might have forgotten some technical details, I remember how I felt like it was yesterday. “I am done. It is the end, and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3 — “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill I deleted a database in production “I am done. It is the end and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted a production database critical to our customers…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2 — “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks”. — John Muir In part 1 of this series, I talked about intuition and how it can help engineers improve their performance. In this part 2, I will talk about another soft skill critical for engineers— empathy. How it all started I…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1 — The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein How it all started The realization that intuition was going to be important happened approximately 15 years ago. Cloud computing was still…

Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part 2 — “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin Welcome to Part 2 of the chaos engineering blog series! In Part 1, we took a deep dive into the various experimentation modes in chaos engineering, exploring their unique benefits and…

Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part1 — Welcome to this two-part blog post series on chaos engineering best practices! In this series, I’ll be sharing insights and practical strategies that I’ve gathered throughout a decade of chaos engineering. In Part 1, we’ll dive into the different modes of experimentation for chaos engineering — from the exploratory ad-hoc…

My response to the reaction generated by the Prime Video article published last week — “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray Every now and then, the internet goes crazy over something someone said, did, or thought. Last week, it was an article from the Video Quality Analysis (VQA) team…

A list of my blog posts related to AWS Fault Injection Simulator — AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS that makes it easier to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Supported actions are listed here — but more will follow. Following are the different blogs that dive deep into using…

Tutorial — Using Datadog Alarms with Amazon EventBridge to Safely Monitor AWS Fault Injection Simulator Experiments — Many businesses and organizations adopt cloud computing as a key aspect of their technology strategy. While most applications can be migrated easily, some need modernization before they can be moved to the cloud. There are also applications that must remain on-premises due to extreme low-latency requirements, and data sovereignty or…