First things first
Why one morning I just woke up and felt like writing
I want to make an honest statement here: I’m a technologist not a writer, I’ve had a couple of attempts in the past to create blog entries in Wordpress to do what I love most, talk about technology. I seldomly achieved so.
After my first job on a tech support role for a company that distributed Hardware designed specifically to support high density calls for the most demanding trading floors back in the 90’s, I then moved to system administration of what was known as ‘Wintel’ stack in early 2000's, then move over to project management, sales engineering and eventually landed on architect roles a couple of times during 2020's, more recently at Amazon’s cloud line of business.
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While I’m writing the above paragraph and re-reading it, I’m amazed on how fast the technology has evolved in the last 27 years, it gives me chills to close my eyes and think that, not so long ago, I was standing in front of a rack doing patch-cabling between switches, firewalls and servers, or running down fibers to interconnect compute-boxes aimed at running mission-critical databases to (at the time) state-of-the-art storage systems that featured a few dozens of Terabyte-scale space, which I naively thought those would suffice for years to come, ha.
And so, here we are today, thinking about how to deal with agent-centric workflows, how to better train custom models so companies can help provide their operational, financial, marketing and technical teams, with meaningful answers to all sorts of industry-specific questions; and many times, aimed at better understanding trends and uncover customer base consumption and preferences. Here I’m not talking trivially about chatbots, but also complex automation systems that help solve challenging business processes which are more and more, in demand for better performance, accuracy and cost efficiencies within the chain-of-value.
But, as not everything is AI, we’re still immersed, work along and rely on systems that maintain same basic principles from decades ago, such as operating systems, voice communication platforms or security appliances, those have certainly evolved into their own rich-featured versions to keep up with the needs of present times, and so are a fascinating source of discussion as well.
My plan after this first entry, is to write about anything related to technology and its usage. I’ll be ranging from what are companies’ motivations to establish their Cloud and AI adoption journeys, to migrations, to disaster recovery challenges, information security and threat prevention, and in general any topic that captures the attention of a technologist like me, hopefully this reflections also help direct the work (or at least be of use) for someone that may be facing similiar challenges like I once did and still have the honor of tackling.
It’s been one of those good mornings so far.
