Networking ... a must in any world

For sure you are expecting a technical post about networking for VMC on AWS as i´m right now focus on this in my actual employer, but this is not a tech post only. Why? Because networking is a must in any world: physical, virtual and in the real world or AFK how Gottfrid Svartholm likes to call.

From the beginning, network is probably the most critical aspect of any technical design. Connectivity, security and availability are the three topics to define a good network. Nowadays, security become the most important and unfortunately just due to the risk of data loose. Data is always around discussions. From the marketing side, as they need info to work, to the CxO in order to taking decisions.

Anyone will agree on this statements, but what´s about networking away from keyboard (AFK) ?

Socialize when you work on IT is not a main focus in general. Nothing more wrong than this. In my hole career get in confidence and be a trusted advisor for customers has been a must. A must for success.

Who know me, realize that i was working in different companies, sometimes because i change my home following my beloved partner on a Spain tour, and some times because of my needs to find new challenges.

Thanks to this, my network grow much more than i can imagine. Trying always to work side by side with the smartest people i found, always learning and spreading my knowledge as much as i can later.

Reminder: share and spread your knowledge is a powerful and enriching experience.

So, we have now the technical side and the social point of view.

Take a moment to think in you personal network. Use for example Linkedin. Did your network help to achieve your goals? no? Then your network is just a list of contacts, like an amount of routers, firewalls and cables can/can´t be considered a "network".

So when you design or create a network, you think in your use cases and your needs. You create it with the budget that you have. And that is which will limit your design.

Your social network is more or less the same. Your daily basis task, your mates and the customers makes your environment. But here, you are the only that can make it grow and push to a good one.

In one of the companies that i was working for, in the first and only interview that i did on the hiring process, when i started to feel exhausted after close to two hours talking, the CxO who was leading the interview told me that i didn´t look an engineer. The offer was for an engineer role. I asked if i had to wake up and go out the room, but then he explained me that this was exactly what they were looking for: someone with a good technical level of course, what someone who can go to customers and get in confidence with them. Finally, i got the job and still having contact nowadays. Get in confidence as a must. Trusted advisor rules.

So here we are. Networking and socialize is as much important as a good technical one.

Next post will be about networking.... and of course about VMC on AWS. I know there is so many post around this topic, but i´ll try to approach with a different point of view. Stay tuned.

Be nice, be kind, it´s for free.