Gurpreet S. Sachdeva is a Technology Leader with 20 years of experience working on some of the most challenging technologies related to Communication Software, Enterprise Computing and Cloud Computing. Gurpreet did his B. Tech (Computer Engineering) from NIT, Kurukshetra and M.S. (Software Systems) from BITS, Pilani. He is currently working as Director – Technology with Aricent, Gurgaon. He is a keen Java enthusiast and co-founder of Delhi - NCR - Java User Group. Gurpreet is passionate about building cloud scale software and manage it through ELK stack along with other DevOps tools. Gurpreet is an invited speaker in prestigious conferences like Oracle – Java One, Great India Developer Summit, Indic Threads. Gurpreet blogs at http://www.thistechnologylife.com
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Gurpreet Sachdeva
- - Gurpreet on Microservices
- - Gurpreet's book: Practical ELK Stack: Build Actionable Insights and Business Metrics Using the Combined Power of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
- - Gurpreet's motivation for writing the book
- - Gurpreet's sacrifices and priorities in getting the book written
- - The things that "light Gurpreet up"
- - The perspective of an Indian software professional
- - How Gurpreet got started in software
- - Gurpreet's story of failure - struggles with mobile user interfaces
- - Gurpreet's success story - iterative cloud migration and lessons in domain focus, fault tolerance, and reliability
- - How Gurpreet stays current with what he needs to know
- - Gurpreet's book recommendation
- - The things that have Gurpreet most excited
- - The things about which Gurpreet likes to geek out apart from software
- - Gurpreet's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Gurpreet
Resources:
- Gurpreet's Blog
- Practical ELK Stack: Build Actionable Insights and Business Metrics Using the Combined Power of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana - Gurpreet S. Sachdeva
- Gurpreet on LinkedIn
- Delhi NCR Java User Group
- Year 2000 problem
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Martin Fowler's Bliki
- Uncle Bob Martin's Blog
- Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire
- Software Engineering Radio
- Kevlin Henney on Developer On Fire
Gurpreet's book recommendation:
- Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim
- Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly)) - Jez Humble
- Practical ELK Stack: Build Actionable Insights and Business Metrics Using the Combined Power of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana - Gurpreet S. Sachdeva
Gurpreet's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be prompt in your responses
- Listen to your customers
- Don't shy away from taking risks