It was a time when I was picking up softwares, learn how they are built and tested. I was in a small team of testing softwares and qualifying if they were ready to get into market.
To be able to test the intricacies, the hidden logic in bits and pieces, it was key to have an end to end functional deployment.
There were days, should I mention rare, when setting up a functional deployment was rather surprisingly effortless. Then there were, usual days when we were always 'getting stuck' in setting up a fully functional deployment. That's when were relevant 'the day saving troubleshooting skills' possessed by, my then Manager Arun Krishnan and Tech lead Aravind Rao.
Arun was calm and systematic in his approach, natural at full circle analysis of the problem and getting to the root cause of it. On the other hand Aravind was cheeky in his approach, good at narrowing down to the cause of the problem and tweaking the system to work for him. It was either an irritation or an eye-popping treat to watch him moving his fingers on keyboard while troubleshooting. He was fast on keyboard and it demanded attention of some magnitude to follow what he was trying to achieve.
On a daily basis, I was learning, analyzing the mal-functioning of a deployment, narrowing down closer to proximity of the problem, tweaking various related components and figuring out workarounds.
Even now, whenever I have managed to troubleshoot and resolve a customers or a team members 'getting stuck kind of problems' with our software, I see a bit of an Arun or an Aravind in my approach. I believe, at work, you are mostly what your role model is, that in most cases, your supervisor or your boss. I consider myself fortunate for having worked with many intellectual people and learnt a thing or two from them.
To be able to test the intricacies, the hidden logic in bits and pieces, it was key to have an end to end functional deployment.
There were days, should I mention rare, when setting up a functional deployment was rather surprisingly effortless. Then there were, usual days when we were always 'getting stuck' in setting up a fully functional deployment. That's when were relevant 'the day saving troubleshooting skills' possessed by, my then Manager Arun Krishnan and Tech lead Aravind Rao.
Arun was calm and systematic in his approach, natural at full circle analysis of the problem and getting to the root cause of it. On the other hand Aravind was cheeky in his approach, good at narrowing down to the cause of the problem and tweaking the system to work for him. It was either an irritation or an eye-popping treat to watch him moving his fingers on keyboard while troubleshooting. He was fast on keyboard and it demanded attention of some magnitude to follow what he was trying to achieve.On a daily basis, I was learning, analyzing the mal-functioning of a deployment, narrowing down closer to proximity of the problem, tweaking various related components and figuring out workarounds.
Even now, whenever I have managed to troubleshoot and resolve a customers or a team members 'getting stuck kind of problems' with our software, I see a bit of an Arun or an Aravind in my approach. I believe, at work, you are mostly what your role model is, that in most cases, your supervisor or your boss. I consider myself fortunate for having worked with many intellectual people and learnt a thing or two from them.
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