In my career, I have received some great advice from mentors and leaders which still guide me, especially when things get tough or decisions feel complex. Here are a few worth sharing: - Know your worth—because others won’t always remind you of it. - Be the person someone can say: “I trust you. Just get it done.” - Ask for what you need. Silence never brings clarity. - Do great work—but make sure leadership sees the impact. - Respond quickly. Waiting dilutes momentum. - Don’t let opinions define you. Stay grounded in your truth. - Always negotiate. It’s not about money—it’s about value. - Leave every door open. Never burn bridges. - Solve problems in a way that they don’t return. - If something can’t be stopped, build systems to see it coming. - Keep emotions out of email. Have real conversations when it matters. - When you learn from a community, give back to it. - Disagree with someone? Step into their shoes before you decide. Hope it helps you!
A fellow Sitecorian reached out to me for help on an issue related to Sitecore pod deployments in Kubernetes. They built a web application based on Sitecore 10.4 Headless SXA on Azure Kubernetes Services Cluster and used Azure DevOps for CICD> The Problem We found that the latest code is not getting released to our Sitecore pods. We checked the release pipelines and Deploy Application Specifications steps has logs that mentioned that cm and cd pods are unchanged which means it did not find any differences in the build deployed to Sitecore pods and the build downloaded in pipeline. The Solution We discussed this with our Sitecore rep and he mentioned this is a known issue with Kuberenetes and it occurs as latest tag is used for fetching images from Container Repository. These images get cached and there are chances that the latest image is not picked correctly from Container Registry. I tried googling for it and I found the following stackoverflow link talks about similar issue ...