Hi I'm Vinay, a SRE who likes to help people solve problems. Ask Me Anything!

Publish Date: Sep 29 '19

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Hi everyone!

I'm Vinay Hegde, a Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on expertise in deploying, scaling & troubleshooting production applications on infrastructure distributed across diverse cloud / co-located environments to ensure high availability.

At all the organizations I've worked with, I've also built the requisite tooling for faster development workflows (such as deploy pipelines, configuration management, scripts for daily tasks, etc..), effective monitoring (i.e: Infrastructure / Application), debugging complex issues across the OSI stack (e.g: Entire DC Outages, Disaster Recovery), conducting technical assessments & interviews to scale up teams among others.

If you have any questions about SysAdmin / SRE / DevOps, blogging, career tips, side projects or anything else - please feel free to ask away!

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LouisSep 29, 2019
In your opinion, what are things that every developer (no matter if FrontEnd, BackEnd or DevOps) should know?
- Vinay HegdeSep 29, 2019
  Great question Louis, really appreciate it. Here's some of my pointers on it:
  
  Always ask questions, especially the why on something has to be done before beginning work. This will not only give you more perspective but also help you avoid becoming mechanical.
  
  Work on learning things 1 at a time to avoid confusion, frustration and burnout.
  
  Invest time in activities such as attending Meetups, Conferences, Conducting Interviews (A recent learning having a tremendous impact), Blogging (Both personal & professional of wherever you're currently employed). The vibe of such things is infectious!
  
  Focus on remaining calm since it'll power you to be logical & prove useful when debugging.
  
  Lastly, be humble enough to realize someone with lesser experience & exposure than you could be much smarter. Connect with them to improve your shortcomings.
Vinay HegdeSep 29, 2019

Thanks for the bonhomie, Ayush! The Google SRE Book is indeed a Gem for anyone looking to broaden their know-how on reliability.

You could start with this post I made purely out of my experience

Breaking in as a DevOps | SRE

Vinay Hegde ・ Oct 2 '18 ・ 6 min read

#devops #career #discuss

Hoping it gives you enough clarity to kick-start your implementation, cheers!
Arun KumarOct 4, 2019
Hi Vinay,
I've been curious about Docker. I can't figure out if Docker is not Virtual Machine, then why it needs Hyper-visor to run ? Hyper-v is a virtual machine supporting hardware, isn't it ?
- Vinay HegdeOct 4, 2019
  
  Docker doesn't need hypervisor to run but relies on the Host OS for its functionality.
  
  This is because Docker Containers consist of only essential binaries & dependencies to be executed.
  
  By that definition, many containers of the same/different application can share the same OS kernel & run independently.
  
  Hypervisor is an interface used by VM OSes to work with hardware.
  
  Hoping this helps!
AlmenonOct 5, 2019

Any AWS tips?
- Vinay HegdeOct 6, 2019
  
  Could you be a bit more specific on what exactly in AWS?
  - AlmenonOct 7, 2019
    
    Just in general, I suppose. I don't have any particular questions. For example someone reccomended that I use aurora instead of RDS for speed (although I looked into that and couldn't find out what exactly made it faster)
    - Vinay HegdeOct 7, 2019
      
      Before implementing any service especially cloud-based, a handy approach is to analyze one's own use-case, implement a small PoC & go for self benchmarking to see what fits better.
      
      Here's a guide that should help you begin comparison between RDS & Aurora

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Hi I'm Vinay, a SRE who likes to help people solve problems. Ask Me Anything!

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Breaking in as a DevOps | SRE

Vinay Hegde ・ Oct 2 '18 ・ 6 min read