Day 22 – Game of Thrones end of season celebration, plus a few useful takeaways!

Day 22 – Game of Thrones end of season celebration, plus a few useful takeaways!

Yesterday our awesome tech team at HBO celebrated the end of another spectacular Game of Thrones season. It was epic, right? You probably didn’t know, but every Sunday for the past six weeks a bunch of folks, including site reliability engineers, of course, were working hard to make sure everyone across the globe could watch the premiere on the wide array of different devices and platforms.  …

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Day 20 – Lets get back to the past…

Day 20 – Lets get back to the past…

It’s a rainy day today and my mood is a bit cloudy as well. Maybe cloudy is not the right word because I actually like the rain.

When I won my green card and came to the US about 12 years ago, my first job was to sell pictures on the Times Square.  …

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Day 17 – Totally confused

Day 17 – Totally confused

No, Chinese people don’t eat same chines food we eat in US. People in Mexico don’t eat burritos, that’s American thing. Yes, they do! No, they don’t. Fruits are bad for you. Fruits are perfect, they contain fructose and not sugar. Bulshit, still a sugar!  …

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Day 16 – Just fucking breathe

Day 16 – Just fucking breathe

Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. Things happen, shit hits the fan – you need to be flexible and learn to live in a moment.

I was planning to go sleep around 10pm yesterday, but instead I ended up in the bed only around 1.30am.  …

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2 Weeks Update

2 Weeks Update

Late show today guys. It’s 8.56pm as I’m writing this update. Dropped off my wife and my little boy at the airport a few hours earlier. They are flying over Atlantic ocean as I type these words which is pretty cool!

I’m truly amazed by my wife’s courage to handle 2 years old by herself on a plane for 8 hours!  …

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