A newly minted electronics and telecommunications engineering graduate, Suman’s first encounter with open source, like many others, was driven by necessity. As a performance consultant for Hitachi Data Systems in 2008, while working on benchmark raw/ application performance testing on HDS’ (now Hitachi Vantara) modular storage systems, Suman was searching for a tool that would help him with benchmarking, when he came across the flexible I/O tester or FIO. “I used it for two weeks but ran into some issues and needed to learn a few more configurations. I was still unaware of the power of the open-source community at that time,” he says, recalling the inexperience of his youth with a smile on his face.
When Suman searched for a solution he realised that multiple people had similar queries, and many others were resolving them. “That was when I realised what open source meant. I could request feature updates, and experts on GitHub sat down to act on those requests! I was amazed,” he exclaims.
The gateway to open source
From that point on, Suman entered a whole new world of GitHub and began contributing to projects along with 300 other contributors. He went on to work with and contribute to the documentation of ezFIO, a user-friendly graphical interface or wrapper designed to simplify the usage of FIO.
He didn’t stop at benchmarking tools. The world of open source had opened a new gateway. “In 2015, there was a requirement to create a test bed where I had to set up more than 50 VMs and configure them in a certain way. I came across this tool, Ansible, which allowed me to automate and update software across all the machines. I learned that within 10-12 days! I had to share my feat with the world,” he remarks.
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