A few days ago I signed an offer to join a new team at my company. This is not just a move, but a promotion too. I will be working on revamping our infrastructure to use modern scaling techniques.

I’m incredibly excited! Previously, I was working on a team that basically did legacy work. It was stable, but it was also kind of stale. The longer I worked in that role, the more I would be pigeonholing myself.

Right before I interviewed for this team I started watching MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020). I learned about MapReduce and Google File System and apparently it paid off!

I’m still trying to figure out my cadence for this blog. Part of why I want a blog is because I want to get rid of Facebook and I’d still like to have a place to post about my life. That’s pretty easy to post about.On the other hand, keeping this more focused on what I’m thinking about lends itself to longer, more thoughtful posts. Unfortunately that means they’ll probably be infrequent unless I get into the habit of journalling or otherwise recording whatever it is I’m doing at the moment.