RedHat on Og Maciel's Journal

Three Years and Counting!

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:49:00 +0000

Making a quick pit stop to mark this milestone in my professional career: today is my 3-year anniversary at Red Hat! Time has certainly flown by and I really cannot believe that it has been three years since I joined this company.

I know it is sort of cliche to say "I can not believe that it has been this long..." and so on and so forth, but it is so true. Back then I joined a relatively new project with very high ambitions, and the first few months had me swimming way out in the deepest part of the pool, trying to learn all 'Red Hat-things' and Clojure for the existing automation framework (now we are fully using Python).

Extending the default EC2 root partition for an instance

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Today I was playing with EC2, trying to launch a RHEL 6.3 instance so that I could then install the latest version of Katello and beat a bit on it… just for fun, you know? Using the EC2 Management Console web interface I used the “classical” wizard to select all the components I wanted for a m1.large instance, making sure to edit the default 7.5 GB root partition they give you so that I could have more space available to synchronize content… but when the instance finally came up I realized that my disk space was still showing the default value:

Life Update: July 15th, 2012

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I actually blogged or wrote much that wasn’t work related… so here’s a list, in no particular order, of what I have been doing these days for those who were wondering what had happened to me:

I have been asked to step into a new role at work, and for the last 2-3 months I have been acting as the team lead (no job title change yet). As such, my day to day routine has changed dramatically, and I now spend most of my time planning, organizing and building up our team.