Experiences and takeaway from 2020.....

After a long break from technical blogging, I thought of writing something different, beyond technical stuffs. 2020 was really an year to remember in the human history in the name of Covid-19, a deadliest disease the world has ever seen before. People of all generation has witnessed it and learned a lot from this pandemic. The whole world went into silent mode for quite some time. Staying at home and working from home become a new normal for everyone. World's economy shrank by a marginal %, so the Individual economy. The long story short, world has suffered from all aspect like never before. 

As the whole world went into the practice of working from home, very few sector took the advantage of it while  the informal sectors which covers 90% of the workforce goes to site for work regularly actually suffered a lot. 

Life changing experience during this period!!

  As an IT employee, I got the advantage of working from home on the other hand got some bitter experience by spending more hours and getting more health issues. And this issue is not only with me, it is true for other employees also who did work from home during the whole year starting from March 2020. Due to the extreme level of work and stress, I lost a good work life balance, created few health issues due to overspending hours on chair without any physical exercises.  

What opportunities this Pandemic has created?

If we take it in a positive way, this Pandemic has given a lot of lesson to humans and their attitude. 

1. HealthCare improvements and preparedness needed to respond such Pandemic in future. 

2. Govt. must be ready with some proactive measures  deal with such situation 

3. Collective steps must be taken by responsible countries to ensure this doesn't repeat. 

Technical Opportunities for IT: 

 

With my limited 10 years of IT experience, I have seen a complete paradigm change of  technologies. 

1. Security 

2. DevOps 

3. Data Science 

4. Artificial Intelligence  

are few top trending technologies. 

With the recent incident of massive Data breach in North America has shook the whole world and has left with utter disappointment for all the IT experts who spent years  to build and operationalize a secure infrastructure.  Due to the vulnerability on one system the whole information system got compromised!!  Hence understanding of security inside Out became an absolute requirement for everyone. From developers to QA and from Administrators to managers everyone has to learn and understand the importance of security and follow security practices strictly.