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Cloud Collaboration Reimagined: Principal Engineer Mohan Sitaram on Maximizing Remote Work Efficiency in the Digital Era
- Mohan Sitaram, a seasoned technical leader with over 13 years of experience in software development and testing for large-scale systems, shares his expert perspectives on the transformative impact of cloud technology on business operations, particularly in the context of remote work.
- Cloud technologies have been a viable option for remote collaboration for years, however, the pandemic forced people in nearly every industry to rely on these tools as it was physically impossible to collaborate in person; this led to an increased reliance on SaaS companies like Zoom and Atlassian and their products.
- The biggest advantage of cloud-based collaboration is that it enables distributed teams to function as a single unit and not as disconnected silos.
- For technical software leads, using more than one tool to streamline collaboration is crucial to ensure success; e.g., project management software like JIRA coupled with a cloud-based DevOps platform like Gitlab or GitHub.
- Remote collaboration is most effective when colleagues have the necessary resources and information to carry out their tasks and make optimal use of meetings; thus, meetings should be minimized, and focus shifted to asynchronous collaboration.
- Collaborative engineering is made simpler with cloud infrastructure technologies such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Remote Desktops or Virtual Desktops, Containers, and Kubernetes which enable developers to build applications on a shared cluster of machines by using network protocols like SSH and HTTP.
- Cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure provide the core infrastructure for SaaS companies to build, run, and monitor their applications; cloud providers are skilled at handling lower-level requirements like speed, reliability, security, and application availability and provide easy-to-use APIs that application developers can leverage to build the application.
- The key to successful remote collaboration is having a balance between SaaS services like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, and cloud services like VDI, that run in private data centers.
- Generative AI is already being used in several domains to compose emails, documents, audio, and video. SaaS companies like Zoom are using AI in the form of smart assistants; companies might use generative AI to simplify the user experience by automatically generating meeting notes and summaries from a conference call, or producing software design diagrams and flowcharts for a future meeting provided a meeting agenda as input.
- The adoption of AI by SaaS companies might accelerate productivity, simplify user experience by breaking linguistic barriers, and allow businesses to accelerate their growth beyond linguistic barriers.
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