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Introduction In today's fast-changing world, we face many big challenges—from technology and fake news to climate change and political uncertainty. In "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Yuval Noah Harari breaks down these issues into 21 short chapters. This blog gives you a clear and simple summary of each lesson. Part I: The Technological Challenge Theme: How new technology is changing jobs, freedom, and fairness 1. Disillusionment Many people are losing faith in the idea that the world is getting better. We need to be honest about our confusion and take time to understand what's really happening. 2. Work Robots and AI may take over many jobs. In the future, learning new skills and being emotionally strong will be very important. 3. Liberty Big companies and governments are watching us more than ever. If they control our data, they can control us. 4. Equality The people who own data have a big advantage. If we don’t act, the gap between rich and poor will grow ev...

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 ...

The Problem While running the installation steps for setting up Sitecore XP in AKS, we found that the CM/CD pods are not running. This was primarily due to the fact that CM/CD pods were waiting on other pods like xDBsearch to come to running state due to wait-initialization. After waiting for significant time, we found that xDBsearch pod is not coming up and it probably has an issue. Ran kubectl logs command to check xdbsearch logs and found below entries -  The Solution This error definitely implied that the shard databases have some issue. We deleted the shard databases and ran the init job again. When the init job completes, it is advisable to check logs by running kubectl logs command. This will inform if the job was successful or did it errored out at some point. Once the shard databases were recreated, we recreated the pods and this time the xdbsearch pods came up fine. Thanks for reading :)

Hello!! This year, I have mostly worked on Sitecore 10.1.1 as part of IT team of an accounting services organization. Due to my nature of work, I dont have exposure to different projects exploring variety of new Sitecore tools and technologies (like my other fellow MVPs have), but I have used this year to upgrade my learning and dig deeper into Sitecore XP on which I primarily work. Below are my contributions this year -  Sitecore Blogs Below are the links to all my blogs which I have published in year 2022 on Sitecore.  https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-installation-on-kubernetes.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-bug-502996-checkbox-rendering.html https://ghanendra-singh.vercel.app/posts/customize-sitecore-desktop https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/sitecore-solr-error-keepererrorcode.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/cannot-find-options-for.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2024/11/links-db-in-sitecore-not-consistent.html ...