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Enterprise Architect Journey

There are always experiences in both career and life..some will be life changing.

One year back, I read a book "To Kill A Mocking Bird". A scene when the character Atticus Finch kills a mad dog. That makes him a larger-than-life character in the eyes of his 9 year old daughter Scout. It's brilliant. It shook my notion of heroes amongst the characters... I became a fan of Harper Lee

Something like that happened when I started my Enterprise Architect Certification journey. I was very skeptal as this certification is successfully achieved by many who has not even an iota of knowledge about enterprise architectures. But, as I started going through tonnes of material for preparation and hours I am going to put in the assignment, I felt extremely content.

In my job, many times I okayed many designs, even if it is against my conviction. (often political reasons). With this SCEA Part 2 assignment, I have an opportunity to architect a solution with the complete freedom as my heart feels.

We will see how it goes.

And BTW another book I read today is mesmerizing - "Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture" - Martin Fowler

Change or get doomed

How fast can IT management respond to new methodologies?

IT Services companies should continously strive to improve the SDLC process. Use modern paradigms like eXtreme Programming, Continous Integration etc.

Evolve...dudes.....fastttt

me@moonar, kerala, India 

JMeter rocks

I wanted to do a small scale stress testing with a simulation of few hundreds of concurrent users. I tried JMeter and it is wonderful. It took just 2 hours for me to create 5 test cases with dynamic data picked from external file and run the tests. Now I expanded it for full scale stress testing.

I recommend this if your requirement is simple and you want to do things fast.

visit http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ for more details.

Sunday is Monday

Being an application assembler and in-charge of SCM is a pain particularly if the software has 3000 files and release cycles every week. Neverthless, it is my job. So the whole Sunday I ran ant scripts, testing, deployment and CVS commits.

Spoke with Raghu after so many days. He will be going India tomorrow.

Farewell to Shanti

Finally she left for India. When we met 2 months back both of us never imagined that we would be such good friends. And more than friends. She is my favorite sister now. With a protocol..that we support each others all the time....

Then came back home and started work, sleep, then had a dinner with Manju and Archana.

Later I watched 3 movies....Predator 2, The Great Train Robbery and The Desert Fox. Had a wonderful Saturday night. Half the weekend is gone...Gloomy Monday awaiting....But there is more...