About

About the Name Follow the Sun:

The term “Follow the Sun” has a number of Pop Culture references in today’s society dating back  to a 1950’s biographical film on golf legend Ben Hogan to a TV series from the 60’s based on two Honolulu magazine writers.

Today Follow the Sun is a type of global workflow in which tasks are passed around daily between work sites that are many time zones apart. Such a workflow is set up in order to reduce project duration and increase responsiveness. Thus, the work is “following the sun” and never stops.

For example, at the end of the day, a systems support team in Silicon Valley will pass its work tasks to a support team in Bangalore, India, which, at the end of its day, passes its work on back to Silicon Valley.

A related concept is follow-the-moon, which is scheduling work to be performed specifically during local night-time hours in order to for instance save on datacenter costs by using cheaper night-time electricity or spare processing power.

Follow the Sun to me is a blog that I keep up because sometimes I feel like I am not such a good kid. Not bad like I go out and do bad things, more like I don’t call my mom or grandma on their birthday. So to make up for this, I take pictures of things and write about them so my family can check up on me when I forget to check up on them. Most of what happens in my life these days takes place during the day. I wake up with the sun and fall asleep shortly after it sets. With that being said, most of what one might read about on this blog is about how I spend my days, following the sun.