Believe me; life is not easy when you
are working with a Vendor Company, such as Hexaware Technologies that I
work for (Hexaware is an Oracle
Platinum Partner as well). I have to learn all the new things with the
little time you get, sometimes you have to learn lot of things in less
than few hours. For a person like me, this is exactly what I want and
like to do. Learn new things all the time!!! That is my motto!
One thing I like the most here is, I have the freedom to move to other IT technologies that I have little or no experience with. However that was not easy for a person like me or anybody for that matter. You have to keep learning and understand new things that come up.
One thing I like the most here is, I have the freedom to move to other IT technologies that I have little or no experience with. However that was not easy for a person like me or anybody for that matter. You have to keep learning and understand new things that come up.
As you are already aware (or if you are
reading my blogs for first time), I started my IT career as the Web
Developer with Apache and Perl CGI development (really old
technologies!!). After couple of years, I got bored with Web
Development. Then, I moved into Unix System Administration, mainly
worked on Solaris and HP-UX and related hardware and software. And
again, I got bored with UNIX Administration and moved to Peoplesoft Infrastructure and Administrator positions.
I was a happy person (I am still
happy!!) for almost 7 years working with Peoplesoft Infrastructure for
many clients. Now, I got an opportunity to work in Oracle Server
Technologies here, especially Oracle Database, Oracle Identity
Management and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies.
If you are in the IT industry, you have
to know one thing for sure. Keep learning. We have to develop a
mentality like kids have. They are always curious to learn new things
and all the time. This is an important quality you have to develop if
you want to excel in IT Technical career. You have to develop
curiousness to learn new things (from internet, from other blogs, from
collogues, from peers, from managers and almost everywhere!).
I started working in Oracle Server
Technologies (Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Fusion
middleware, Enterprise Manager etc ) less than a year ago. However,
before starting, I had an fundamental understanding of what they are and
why do we need them. You cannot build this in one day. You should be
aware of other technologies. One major thing that helped me was, my UNIX
skills. I am able to solve almost any problems if that runs on UNIX.
Two things you have to understand in
UNIX World. Everything is handled as a file and everything runs in the
server is a process. If you are able to make these two simple facts,
then I am sure you will be able to fix any servers, anything that runs
in UNIX/Linux.
Okay, I think we are going off topic. Other than books and internet, I use two simple ways of learning.
Okay, I think we are going off topic. Other than books and internet, I use two simple ways of learning.
a) Blogging
b) Teaching/Mentoring
Both of these are not easy for me. I
have to really develop mastery to some level before start teaching
someone. Believe me, it is not easy to teach, especially in IT industry,
it is difficult with all the new things popping up almost every second.
That is why I wanted to start blogging more often and conduct more
mentoring classes in Hexaware.
And now, within last one year, I have got quite an expertise on Oracle
Server Technologies. During this time, my experience with UNIX, Web
Development and Peoplesoft really helped a lot in understanding the
architecture of the Oracle Server Technologies. I am still learning new
things everyday (that is why I want to write here, at least I can use
them later!).
I want to use this new blog site to
start sharing knowledge, write about errors or failures and how we
handle them (lessons learned) etc. I will start with a new topic here
soon. Until then.
