Parmita's Blog

This summer I got the incredible experience of interning at Splunk!!! There are so many different things I could write about from my experience, but lemme just big a couple main ones: 1) Big vs Small (or more accurately mid-sized company vs startup, but that doesn't have the same ring to it) 2) CI/CD + CL! (Continuous Integration and Development   +   Continuous Learning!) Part 1: Big Company vs Small Company  My last internship was at a startup ( see more about it here ), and the onboarding process was many miles away from the way it was at Splunk. To introduce myself at the startup, I could literally just say “Hi!” loud enough and everyone in the 1-floor office would hear me. But Splunk has close to 5 thousand employees across the world! Understandably this leads to quite a different experience. Everyday, I have the opportunity to meet someone new. I have the chance to meet people with so many different interests. Almost like a college, there...

This summer I was an intern at Numerify ! Numerify is a tech startup providing a system of Intelligence for IT. It was an incredible experience, and I learned so much in such a short period. Numerify’s clients include companies such as Netflix, Coach, and McDonald's. They use Business Intelligence and analytics tools to help their customers business manage their IT Data. Over the course of the summer, I picked up a whole laundry list of acronyms used in the Business Intelligence (or should I say the BI) world: RDMS - Relational Database Management System ITSM - IT Service Management ITPA - IT Product Analytics SDA - Software Development Analytics ETL - Extract Transform Load APM - Appliance Performance Monitoring SLA - Service Level Agreement CSAT - Customer Satisfaction GUID -  Global Unique ID POM - Project Object Model REST - Representational State Transfer CRUD - Create, read, update and delete ER - Entity Relationship OLTP - Online Transaction Processing ...