Aur Pyar ho gaya..!!

Love at first sight a different proposition but love as a baseline is core and integral part of most of the relationship. Why one falls in love or what make one to pursue feelings of love and affection is very individualist issue but there are certain characteristics, attributes and qualities which plays as catalyst of attraction mechanism in human beings. Developing a feeling of love for someone is a long drawn process, love evolves slowly and steadily but gradually taking control of one’s heart and mind and one day we suddenly discover that we are in love. :)

It also needs a different kind of environment and dynamics for love to happen at first sight. Our primary motivation as human beings, is to expand the self and this inner instinct shoots to a unprecedented levels when the situation are highly arousing, mind and body are highly stirred and excited; that point of time we tend to experience attraction at the highest level.

Feel of love and being in loved puts us into a different world all together heart beats are little faster, voice of the beloved one is enough to send a shiver down the spine, we always want to be with the loved ones and expand our primary self. This is what I have understood from romantic movies and novels …hahaha…

It was 13th Feb and was like any other normal day; me spending the entire day @ work place and my venlentini @ home busy with her household chore, but with a promise to spend some quality time together. Till evening everything was absolutely normal but things were waiting to happen.

I came across something which made adrenaline rush; I couldn’t believe my eyes and neither could take off my eyes from …. The first encounter was around 7.00 pm inside a cabin but I didn’t acknowledged it that seriously… but mind was not relaxed and things were not usual, I repeatedly want to be with it and see it again and again…… I again relooked it after an hour or so and my heart beats were at a faster rate… this was getting something similar to love at first sight…. One wants to take off his eyes but mind resists to….

Well I asked one of my colleague the status quo and inform me if my feelings and observations are correct… the way we share our feelings with our friends and associates… he evaluated the situation and conveyed to me that there was nothing as what I felt about…. I was doubly sure about my feelings as I believed to what I have seen… heart and mind speaking the same language.

I became restless after that interaction and couldn’t concentrate on anything else….. My behavior got a twist and I was only thinking about the incident of evening…. After spending restless evening I couldn’t resist the temptation to validate my feelings and was toying with an idea of validating the same… Somehow I could manage to confirm my observation and to my surprise it was it… Oh my god…. How could this happen… and why?

At 10.30 Pm I realized that it that for which I was not prepared for…..

I want to see it again in action and rushed to the office, it was 11.30 pm by then and all my colleagues who were present by me at that point of time acknowledged my observation….
Wait I’m not talking about love at first sight which made adrenaline rush J this all is about a malicious valentine attack which took place on my site on 13th Feb leaving me high and dry…..

It has been hardly few days we moved to a new Datacenter… the attack made me to spend my valentine in office exploring the probable and root cause….

But as we are with one of the top service provider of India I’m sure that they will take care of these issues in future… Aamin

This really kept me and my valentini waiting…. Cupid struck badly

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Sify - Surety infinite

No one better than we ourselves understands our strengths and weakness but those perceptions are really tested in tough situations and most of the times the internal strengths which we boasts on proves to be weakness when time comes calling. The same happened with me even, I use to boast on my grip and insight on database application, management and fine tuning as I was successfully handling, managing the database and architecture for almost eleven years.

To add more to my confidence were the certification on database application, architecture and management which I have scored in my carrier and most of the time I successfully overcome the challenges of known unknown situations of database crash, performance tuning and malicious attacks.

I was working on the project wherein I was in charge of migrating two big portals and multiple websites from one location to another. Prima facie it looks like a simple job and yes it was, provided one has a strong team who takes care of multiple aspects of networks, hardware, application and database and you as a project manager you patch with multiple stakeholder and control the operation. But to my surprise I was working with only one or two resources at any given point of time on this ultra ambitious project and to my agony the resources were not fully equipped to understand the nitty-gritty of the entire project.

As program manager I was aware of skewed resource pool and resource engagement that the project demanded and I decided to outsource most of the non-core activities to the service provider which in turn was there core business line. After a long drawn process of vendor selection, negotiation for solutions and prices, we selected Sify Technologies ltd ,there solutions and pricing appeared to be very aggressive and pocket friendly and we were very impressed by the in-depth knowledge and understanding of the team on the desired solution, inclination of the team to understand the customer requirement and to assist the customer was superb.

Keeping fingers crossed we moved our network from existing location to Sify’s data centre, any migration is a tricky job and for an online business which is 24X7 and acknowledged globally it becomes more tricky and complicated. Transition of online assets happened smoothly and everything appeared to be fine… but I was little skeptical for the database performance as we were migrating to a newer version of the database. Though water testing and regressive checking were all positive, but still I was bit skeptical as during testing phase one can’t simulate online real traffic; I was expecting some sort of disturbance or last minute rush to happen.

After going live with the new infrastructure on cloud and with a few hours of operation we started getting database timeouts we immediately checked index and fragmentation status, prima facie it appeared working fine and reflected the latest date but still things were not that fine.

We were trying to figure out the probable cause of timeouts we introspected everything within the network, firewall, connectivity between the server, indexes, queries, the storage device and what not. Finally we concluded that the indexes are the culprit and they didn’t behaved in the manner we anticipated.

I was not having enough resource pool to answer this sudden priority requirement and post migration there were lot of activities internally, externally and at network level which were to be changed as per new infrastructure.

But as we were subscribed for the database management activities we immediately called the Sify team and asked them to ascertain the root case and fine tune the database if possible. They responded within 8 hours and fine tuned the database to an excellent level, which I think was not possible for me to pursue independently.

DBA Team from Sify showcased/implemented their knowledge and in-depth understanding about the database and structure and thank God we were able to stabilize that.

Kudos to the team for making me feel proud of our decision of selecting Sify as technology partner in our business endeavors