singhrk

Congratulations isro

Any evidences on corruption or bureaucracy? Or, its just an opinion. Last few years India has specifically worked on corruption and bureaucracy. Specially in ease of doing business it has gone up from being at 100+ position to 53 in last 10 years. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index

Indian government can definitely improve (and so can every governments of world). But since 1991 all Indian governments are taking slow steps in the right direction, with increase transparency and lesser corruption and bureaucracy (opening up the economy, digitizing governments, simplifying taxes, right to information act)

Currently I am in the same boat. Few things that we have tried/figured out are -

(a) Deprecation - Get your butcher hat on. start looking at existing things, and see how many of these are used by who all. Start deprecating (or at least archiving) the offerings that no body uses (or you are not able to find a user)

(b) Simplification - Try to find the infrastructure components (compute engines, storage frameworks) that serve the same use-case, and see if you can converge into one. For example you can converge from HDF5 and S3 to just S3. Similarly from Hive and Spark to just Spark. Don't bring another infrastructure component in the mix, otherwise someone new in your place will make another HN post in future :)

(c) Documentation - Start building a place to document all the offerings that you have. Some wiki style solution or if it works for you something as simple as google docs. Or it could be some solution like Superset/Redash that is atleast bringing everything at one place

(d) Governance - Get some power users in the system, take their help in (i) identifying important datasets, (ii) adding information about existing datasets, (iii) can review a new code/dataset/production deployment

(e) start checking in Transform code/table DDL, all metadata into some git repository. This will automatically build some documentation overtime and take care of duplicate logic overtime

Using mi a2 for last 2 months. A android one phone. Stock android, no bloat, very good looking hardware.. Overall a good value, but software is slightly buggy (occasional heating, random boots) and no clear communication on software upgrade policy

yeah still here. No reason given. Reached out to customer service several times but no conclusive update on (a) why my case is in admin processing (b) how long will it take to get resolved (c) at what status is it currently.

Its just a painful endless wait, which can get over in a few days or in worst case in more than a year

Second that. I am a legal immigrant. Been in US for 5+yrs. Work in a FAANG company. Have a valid work permit (h1b) till 2021. Came back to home country for stamping, now my case is in administrative processing for 4+ months. House/Job/Child Education, all impacted because of this.

I feel like framing your first sentence and put it a place where I can see/show it everyday !

Indian here. Not true, most of us love our country. And people do love to go back. Relocation in general is tough, once you have a family and kids going to school, its really tough to go back