First days at Red Hat

As I mentioned in my last post I left my previous employer after quite some years – since July 1st I work for Red Hat.

So, its one month since I joined Red Hat and it is been quite an experience so far. Keeping in mind where I come from – infrastructure focused, couple dozen people – Red Hat is something entirely different. They are huge. Like, *really* big. And that shows everywhere. Organization, processes, structure, reach, customers, employees, possibilities, etc. Also, these days Red Hat is much more than just Linux: other huge chunks of Red Hat are Middleware, there are several virtualization products, they are serious towards software defined storage, and they indeed have a very specific idea of what Cloud means and how to do that – and it’s all backed up by products which are again backed by pretty vivid community projects (with colorful names as Drools, Byteman and CapeDwarf).

All in all, it’s a lot to learn – and as usual I will use the blog to try to digest everything. Most likely this will focus on technologies I yet don’t even have a clue about – like the aforementioned drooling midgets. But I might also reiterate everything else I have to know in my own words to better learn it – subscription model, product variation, all the shiny stuff you print glossy papers about but have to explain anyway.

It might not be the most interesting for others – but vital for me. And I’m actually looking forward to learn, well, really a lot in a short time 🙂