Written piece
Nights of discussions
Arun John
India
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A deep sigh of an Indian techie- comparison of a dream and that dream shattered by reality.
Discussions at night with peers- a dream come true and a thousand dreams shattered. On the moonlit beaches, in the breezy church or temple courtyards, under the cool banyan tree, on the steps of roadside shops, in the empty bus shelters, discussing stories, novels, poems, essays, and other literary works, their nuances, underlying meanings, political views in them, socio-economic insights- the dream.
Under the blaring white lights in the office or at home, review the code, check the integrations with third party APIs, clear the test data in DBs, make sure CRM and ERP integrations are working fine, push the code to UAT environment, test and then to production and test again; gather the team when bugs are found in the production instance, wake the teams members up from sleep, find the quickest workaround, then find the root cause, submit a report of the RCA- the reality.