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My name is Artur Gadziev and I like to think of myself as of a seasoned IT professional. Been working in the field for over 15 years already. Currently I'm more focused on the Cloud Operations side of the business: DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure (alas, AWS mainly, for they are the ones setting the tone), Security. But in general I've seen pretty much all of it (or, should I say "IT"?): big enterprise mainframes running on HPUX, AIX, Solaris and a plethora of Linux flavors; various RDBMS systems - from DB2 and Oracle to MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL, of course - Redis, Memcached, Mongo, Cassandra; a bunch of different middleware like WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle 10gAS; a handful of main webservers - Apache, NginX, Lighttpd; programming languages from Visual Basic and Pascal to C++, Python, Java, Go, JS... Fearing that previous statement sounded a bit too arrogant, let me quote one of my favorites from Socrates, which I can't agree less with:
The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
Of course, some of the ancient software components I listed are well in the past for me and now I'm being excited about serverless cloud-native architectures (when it is reasonably fit for use and doesn't cost an arm and a leg), conteinerized applications, IaaC, DevSecOps, data pipelines and message brokerage systems. Probably, just the retro-style of publishing for Gemini is setting a nostalgic mood for me so I tend to reflect more on the work I've done at the rise of my career. Speaking of which: long time in the past I've managed to join a friendly "pre-Internet" network called FidoNet as a client point of a local SysOp and I can still remember my address in that network - 2:5061/6.95. Knowing this you would probably be able to get on which part of the world I am coming from, if my name doesn't sell it out immediately.
My main motivation, philosophy and life guiding principles boil down to the two main points:
I really like to drink tea of any kind and learn more about this drink that comforts humanity for over two millenia. Personal tea favorites: Jin Jun Mei, Tieguanyin, but I also enjoy Chen Pi Pu'er as well.
I'm also a bit of a bookworm. Favorite authors include: Julio Cortázar, Erich Maria Remarque, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Terry Pratchett, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Akunin.