Revamping My Tech Blog
After nearly a decade of inactivity, I thought to revive my blog. I created this blog in 2006 while I was a core contributor to Apache open source projects. In those days when social channels like YouTube and Stack overflow were not readily available for software developers to assist in technical subject matters, bloggers like me became reference materials for open source software troubleshooting. Some posts in this blog generated 1k+ daily hits and tech enthusiasts reached me via various channels and engaged in productive discussions. I quit contributing to open source software since I joined Amazon in 2014. Since then, I was not active in the blogosphere primarily because of the proprietary technologies that I have been using at Amazon and the restrictions on sharing confidential information. Over the last 8 years, I advanced my career at Amazon by transitioning from an individual contributor to Engineering Management role. In this process, I gained a wealth of experience in workin