bobbydreamer
After his retirement, he was totally at home. He was my best friend now kinda i feel alone. I do have friends, mom and sister but he is the one who company's me to all places, we go to theatre to watch movies. I have only one audio recording of him which was accidentally recorded in his phone which is like 7mins. I would play it to hear his voice.
Actually as per Hindu Mythology, people pass on their knowledge, learnings in their death bed moment. But not sure how many follow it now.
Below is the famous one
https://www.indiatvnews.com/amp/news/india/know-the-teaching...
https://bobbydreamer.com/things-that-my-new-site-should-have
Later went with Gatsby starter template.
Rebuilt my site during COVID March 2020. Continuing to add content usually tech, finance, books, notes, cooking....
Using Gatsby starter template
Respective team meetings, it's a agenda to talk about what needs to be updated, after updating a draft will be sent and later uploaded in the portal.
That will be the end game.
Not sure how much they earn behind the wall.
Top of the file has all zoom/ mobile numbers of people i need to contact during emergency or support in production.
EoD marked by 20-30 hyphens next line start with date.
I wish i had learnt mark down 10yrs back. Thinking again what's the point. This serves the purpose.
Deprecation is a new term in mainframe.
Don't fix what's not broken
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It's a common saying that mainframers don't try to learn new tech. Well that saying goes two ways, person saying has really tried to learning mainframe and work on it for a month. Actually there isn't much to learn other than couple of languages COBOL, REXX, JCL and SAS. Other than that it's just ISPF interfaces.
Mainframers actually have to learn tech once and then go on to learn business logics and business domain. Isnt that actually good when comparing to always learning new tech and writing migrating programs to support existing interface in new Lang but not too much about business you are working on.
On the other hand mainframers do spend on learning and upskilling but in mainframe itself. There are lots of IBM Usergroups like IDUG for instance which is related to Db2, being a DBA that's a very useful training programme for me.
COBOL codes are highly modularized to do one or couple of functions to my knowledge and there are definitely coding standards each shop maintains.
Having a bunch of nodeJs cloud functions i get an email from Google saying that I need to migrate my NodeJs or it will stop functioning and while trying to migrate i find couple of modules are not longer supported and I need recode. Here I am not adding any new features just trying to make it work as before with new library which I have to find, learn, test and analyse does it suit then recode. All this costs time which you don't have to do in mainframe. You can say why not run in a VM, then what's the point running in cloud.
Mainframe is not a legacy system. IBM introduces a new machine every 3-4 years and send their sales team to visit corps and run presentations :) . Currently IBM has changed their billing style, it's not flat or peak hour, it's custom. It's the smallest footprint in your data center.
What mainframe actually did is, job separation. So in a career a person will sort of become an expert in their line or software. He will know all the ins and outs. For example a RACF security person will not know about Db2 and how it functions only part he knows is what interfaces with RACF. Same with CICS, MQ.... From application/dev team they get to know business like in a requirement meeting when business talks devs will be mapping business with program modules they had to make a change.
In mainframe people get to specialize.
Don't overthink. You see there are many one post sites out there. If you can manage it regularly do it.
Moved it to cloud. That's also scary. Anybody knowing your email can lock you.
The roadblocks been, the source site from I scrape they change their site design often due to which I loose data or had to rework which some times takes couple of months. Data is sometimes disconnected like if the stock is part of a index the main page is updated with main items like revenue and net profit but the details pages are not updated and they might be updated within next 5days. So scraping takes lots of time in my home computer amd insertion takes time as well. Initally I was generating around 50 reports, after site upgrades due to change in data presented data, currently have around 35 reports. Since I am not seeing that many reports currently I am going to drop more reports.
Scraping part is the part I would like to move to cloud but currently I don't have enough time but 3yrs back I was working like a machine 9hrs office. 5-7hrs each day on this. Tech stack all of it I had to learn Scraping : Java, Python (introduced a year back); Analysis : Java & SQL queries . Currently trying to add pandas; Realtime scraping : NodeJs, Firebase in GCP; UI : initially generated reports using Java velocity, Js datagrids in bootstrap. Later developed a full fledged bootstrap 4 web application;.
Spent RIDICULOUS amount of time on this. Worse thing is when I started there wasnt much of apps did what I tried to do in report perspective. Now there are apps which does almost 50% of analysis what I do.
Now the thought process is do I want to proceed ? No. I am trying to continue the scraping part but sort of minimize all the UI stuff and when some analysis is required write a query to get the data and subscribe & pay the app which solves 50% of my work.
Due to this I didn't focus on any other areas in life which right now is lot frustrating. Sacrifices I used to be a marathon runner, not anymore. Used to workout regularly 5days a week in gym, not anymore. Used to have social life, not anymore.
Another interesting thing, it's a stock webapp which I was building, I was soo into the programming in bringing this up actually I didn't actually get time to review the reports. I did miss a lots of Market Ups....
DevOps actually didn't break the barriers at all. It just created more roles inbetween Developers, testers and operations and brought in more tools. So people in operations are asked to use the Devops tools as organization has already bought it.
If is say what's my best its mostly the ones between 1980 to 2005. Everything after that was too much CGI or it was like okay movie.
Like comedies I liked were Encino man, son in law, first few parts of police academy, jury duty.
Action movies Conair, lost in space, broken Arrow, specialist, assassins. Desperado.
LinkedIn is self advertising portal for newer better opportunities and that data is actually in public view and someone is selling it to get me better opportunities it sort of sounds fine..
What would be informational is if so called hacker comes and says how he used the data or the tech stack used.