Cloud Agnostic instead of Multi-Cloud Multi-Cloud and Cloud-agnostic are not the same thing and one is better than the other. But, what are the differences?
Back in my rebellious tech youth—when downloading FreeBSD over a 32K dial-up connection was a thing—Microsoft Word dominated the school system. WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were fading, while MS Word was on the rise. In the Free Software circles, we fought back (and we fought HARD!) by installing OpenOffice (the heir to StarOffice) on every possible machine. I had even rename shortcuts to Microsoft Word and change the icon in a naive (yet clever) attempt to make it go unnoticed. Inevitably, my ruse was discovered whenever someone tried to open the document on another computer with the actual Microsoft Word.
Not in software development, not anywhere My early years at the startup Innox were the ones with the most learnings, I constantly find myself repeating the mantras or phrases I learned back then. I owe many of those learnings to the peculiar management style of Juan Carlos González, which I may share on another occasion. One of the phrases I was told every time I suggested to do an extra effort to achieve something: in this company we do not want heroes.
Treasure Wild Ducks I learned the concept of Wild Ducks on IBM. I was on a team where it didn’t feel it was applied by the local management (actually it was the other way around), but it was encouraged by the worldwide leaders.
The concept is very simple, and was explained with a video. If you feed a wild duck (regularly), -and it leaves the flock- it becomes domestic. A wild duck is a person with unconventional ideas, someone who challengue the status quo. It was a interesting concept applied to the IT industry, treasure those employees that love to change the things. It is a more interesting concept applied to a self-professional life.
Because I don’t have a spanish keyboard. When I was hired I was given with a latin american keyboard, but after I moved to USA my computer (with Windows 10) started to use the hard disk a lot, some days for 99% of the capacity for hours. My guess is that was swaping, but disabling/tweaking the some Windows settings didn’t fix the issue. So instead of spend more time troubleshooting, I got a new computer, HP again with Windows 10, more RAM, better processor but with an us-english keyboard.
Get TN visa for me was as easy as a tourist VISA. O maybe easiest. I was a little anxious, even if my friends told me to not be. Is not that I really need to have the VISA, Guadalajara is a place with many open positions, but paperwork always put me anxious. Another event happened, at the time of writing we know that Mr. Trump it’s the elect president of the United States of America, one of the many campaign promises includes the renegotiation of the NAFTA (TLC on Mexico), which includes the TN visa. So, nobody really knew how this will affect my future immigration status. Anyway, it was easy, there was nothing to be anxious about.
Power of representation
people that died in my neighborhood, friends. Miguel Icazxa. Mono Book. Kid with somos.tech hoodie.
