Ph D-Day

 

Today is D-Day (PhD viva defense [D] day); post effect of 7.5 years

My journey through PhD life was similar to others - a roller coaster (or Sin wave) of highs and lows. In this journey, had a difficult time refining my research work, keeping motivation, work research balance, health struggles and then a pandemic spelling.

After these challenges, still felt that everything was hanging on the dreaded viva. Day came finally!

Honestly, everything in those three hours is a bit of a blur with my brain fogged over. Still, it's a life time opportunity!

As the hard core results of consistency, commitment and courage, God blessed me to prefix as Dr. officially. 

Thanks every well wisher to make this D-Day!

Internet Explorer Retirement

After 25+ years of helping people use and experience the web, Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of yesterday, June 15, 2022. To many millions of you, Microsoft is appreciative for using Internet Explorer as the gateway to the internet world.

Ref: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/06/15/internet-explorer-11-has-retired-and-is-officially-out-of-support-what-you-need-to-know/

AWS Mainframe Modernization

 Today, I read an interesting article to modernize your mainframe applications and deploy them to AWS fully-managed runtime environments

Please go through at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/modernize-your-mainframe-applications-deploy-them-in-the-cloud/

Well deserved transformation in the current IT industry. Kudos to AWS !

FSx Lustre Root Squash

 Amazon FSx for Lustre is a service to provide the cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable file storage for compute workloads. 

Recently, AWS started supportingroot squash, which is an administrative feature adds an additional layer of file access control on top of the current network-based access control and POSIX file permissions that FSx for Lustre provides. 

Using the root squash feature, the user can restrict root level file system access from clients that access an FSx for Lustre file system as root.

As an IT administrator, it provides the users root access on their compute instances to perform privileged operations such as changing system configurations or installing and removing software. 

Root squash feature is available at no additional cost on all Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for Lustre is available. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/LustreGuide/what-is.html.