Cooking Up Comfort

When life gets tough and times are lean,

And every day is a struggle to make ends meet,

There’s one thing that can bring a bit of relief,

And that’s cooking up something good to eat.

 

It may not be a fancy meal, with all the trimmings,

But a pot of soup or stew can go a long way,

To nourish and sustain us, through thick and thin,

To get us through another difficult day.

 

The act of cooking can be a form of therapy,

A way to clear the mind and focus on the task at hand,

To transform simple ingredients into something savory,

And to find comfort in the warmth of the pan.

 

For some, cooking is a way of life,

A passion that drives them to create and innovate,

To turn a simple recipe into a work of art,

And to feed the soul as well as the plate.

 

So whether it’s a simple bowl of oatmeal,

Or a three-course meal fit for a king,

Cooking for survival can be a way to heal,

And to find joy in the simple act of cooking.

— Sujoy Sarkar (May 16, 2023)

Blood Moon

Let’s shoot the blood moon
Let the sky be darker
We’ll count the stars soon

To embellish our sweetest dreams
Of freedom and enterprise
Let’s forgive the nights of reprise
Of forged innocence, by the sunrise

Let’s get to the top of that mountain
You & me, kiss a goodbye
The troubled streams, turning on the fountain
Of knowledge that never die

Let’s shoot the blood moon
To rid the wolves, of our error
We’ll count the stars soon
To give up on the nights of terror

— Sujoy Sarkar (March 9, 2020)

Image Copyright with Fred Espenak of NASA (earthsky.org)

Free Verse – Helix

Helix

As you look around the screw, tonight
You could see thousand curls, growing up
Among your blurry eyes, shining bright
Your lipstick marks on a marble coffee cup

Even the gold rush, of the ever fringed curls
Of the binary grunts, Of some altered tunes,
Of your accordion or your helix
Would Dark Flow into the forsaken trashcan

With your songs of oblivion, below the leaden sky
With the splintered throbs of your pulses
Amid few more flights of fancy, would fly
To a pointless life, the making of a tombstone
And your bones would turn dusty and frail, nonetheless
A fatal attraction is holding you tight
How can you breathe among this vermin’s trail —
Standing alone, with eyes upraised
Like the flattened platypus, under the sea, or
An imagist’s portrait of vaulting flippers

Out of the corner of your revolving eyes
A fatal attraction is holding you tight
How can you unstake this irresistible gamble?
Yet another machine … rises from infancy

As you loosen up your silken robe, tonight
You’d utter the last words of your idiolect
Out of the forsaken moments of the night
Your blanched profile without the benefit of intellect
Do you get tired of the human race?

— Sujoy Sarkar (Mumbai, 1999)

 

Convergent Management of Private Cloud Infrastructure and Services

Traditionally management of resources, infrastructure and services were conceptualized as “unit deployment” and distribution of Management Application and Manageabiltiy interfaces in customer premises. In this established management approach various standards like TMN management stack are deployed in customer premise making the licensing, support and maintainability from management software vendor complex and cost ineffective. However, with the advent of internet computing and scale such unit deployment can be converged to bring evolution of traditional management stack rendered “As A Service”. This approach of convergent management (as side effect) can also bring all the business values of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in management software domain.

Preface and Foreward

Why think of this approach?

Architectural Context

System Technical Architecture

Design Forces

Future Directions

References

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[3] Service-oriented computing: concepts, characteristics and directions, Papazoglou, M.P. Page(s):  3- 12 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/WISE.2003.1254461

[4] Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service, Stephanie Balaouras, IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, Forrester Business Research, February 2008

[5] Tuomas Nurmela, “Web Services service level management:overview of service level agreement languages and support infrastructures”, Seminar on SOA, Universityof Helsinki, Sept 2006.

[6] IEC, “Service Level Mangement Tutorial”, www.iec.org

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