Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Apr 15IT industry’s adoption of Toyota’s concepts and methodologiesThe Toyota Production System (TPS) pioneered many concepts and technologies that have been widely adopted in the IT industry. As Toyota mastered the art of manufacturing excellence, IT companies have learned from them to achieve high performance in software development and operations. …Toyota2 min readToyota2 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Mar 6Books I read in Q1 2023Twelve Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson I highly recommend this fascinating book, which was suggested to me by my good friend and colleague, Srinath Perera. While the beginning may be a bit slow, the plot thickens as the story progresses and becomes quite captivating. As I read through the…Life2 min readLife2 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Jan 16GCP Startup creditsIn 2015, I founded Platformer Cloud with the goal of creating a developer experience platform on a public cloud. After evaluating several options, I chose Google Cloud (GCP) for its superior technical support, architecture, and cloud credits. As we began to build our platform, we faced the challenge of deciding…Gcp1 min readGcp1 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Jul 26, 2022My first twelve months at WSO2Wow, it was like yesterday that I talked about my six months experience at WSO2. They say when you are onto good things, time flies. Overall it feels like twelve months have gone so fast and yet I feel like I have been with the WSO2 folks for a very…Wso22 min readWso22 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Feb 2, 2022My six months journey at WSO2I joined WSO2 in early June 2021 as part of the Platformer acquisition. Very honestly I was initially very nervous, especially for my ex-Platformer colleagues. We had a family-like culture at Platformer and were worried about how they would fit within a large Enterprise Software company. To my surprise, within…Wso22 min readWso22 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Jan 25, 2022Remarkable 2 — CXI have tried many Tablets and smart devices to get the feeling of a paper-like writing experience. About two years ago got to know about Remarkable. Since then I wanted to get one. Waited until they released the 2nd generation as there were significant improvements from the 1st generation. Ordered…Remarkable2 min readRemarkable2 min read
Published inKanchana’s Personal Blog·Nov 19, 2021FOMO and JOMOI guess most of you are aware of what FOMO stands for, in case you are not aware it stands for Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). However do you know what JOMO stands for, I bet most of you don’t. Not sure if I invented the acronym or not. …Fomo2 min readFomo2 min read
Published inPlatformer — A WSO2 Company·Oct 20, 2021Up and Running EKS Anywhere with MultipassWhat is EKS Anywhere? Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure, supported by AWS. Customers can now run Amazon EKS Anywhere on their own on-premises infrastructure using VMware vSphere, with support for other deployment targets in the near…Eks Anywhere3 min readEks Anywhere3 min read
Aug 30, 2021Measure, like any other product, ensure you are capturing metrics on usage of your platform and other key metrics.Building a Platform Engineering Team1002Gurnam MadanAlso important to highlight that "Measure what matters" rather than creating Metrics just for the…Also important to highlight that "Measure what matters" rather than creating Metrics just for the sake of it.1 min read1 min read
Jul 6, 2021Taking CivoCloud for a SpinFor those of you haven’t heard about CivoCloud, CivoCloud is a cloud provider based out of UK specialises in providing fully managed Kubernetes Service. If I am not mistaken they are the first to launch a fully managed k3s as a service. Firstly warmest Congratulations to the team !!! Few…Kubernetes3 min readKubernetes3 min read