[TOC..TOC..] … is this thing on?!?

2 years 2 months and 10 days, or 26.3 months, or 324.2 weeks, or 2,270 days (you get the idea ?) since my last blog post. Professionally speaking that was another life entirely.

I used to write on MSDN, someone may even have read and still remember some of my posts on https://blogs.msdn.com/b/carloc: at that time I was working in Microsoft CSS (Customer Service and Support) with web development technologies, and I used to write about debugging tough problems and describe troubleshooting techniques I was coming across working with customers across Europe. It was interesting and fun and I learned a lot and I enjoyed sharing it.

As all good things tend to come to an end, I decided it was time to moved on, I wanted a new challenge, I wanted to learn something new, and that required a good amount of energy on itself. Figure out what to do next, where to go and what to look for. At that point in my career I had worked as a Windows and the Web developer, then joined Microsoft and worked helping other developers fix and improve their web applications, I figured the next logical move after building and troubleshooting was to run web application on a large scale. And I mean large.

It was the end of 2012, the cloud was becoming popular and Azure was starting to become a thing so I thought why not?

After a (long) interview loop, weeks dealing with bureaucracy and paperwork, more cardboard boxes that I could count, 5,385 miles and a mad rush across Heathrow Terminal 5 hoping to not miss our connection, we finally landed in Settle ready for a new life.

Since the beginning of 2013 I’ve been working as Service Engineer (the modern term now is Site Reliability Engineer) for various Azure services, I survived a few reorgs, learned a lot and grown in the role, really got into tools and technologies I was only vaguely aware existed till that moment, started to lead a small but passionate team of Service Engineers… This is a dynamic environment, I’m curious to see what will come next ?

I have migrated my old posts from MSDN to this new home because someone, somewhere may still find those useful (plus, I’d hate to let them disappear in a cloud based recycle bin); I’ll be writing more about cloud things here, automation, scripting and all sorts of tecky things I find interesting and will hopefully help others in the process.

Let the fun begin!

Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard