FOSDEM is the mecca for all the free software developers/hackers. No wonder the attendance in the event runs anywhere north of 7000+ developers coming from all corners of the world. To attend FOSDEM this year is a dream come true for me. The event provides free demo booth to open source projects, also there is …
Category Archives: Cloud
My first 60 days at minio
Most of my close friends know that I joined https://minio.io couple of months back. As a developer evangelist, most of my time is spent getting application developers excited, evangelize Minio and also hack on Minio’s software stack (yes you heard it right!) Minio stands for minimal cloud storage and derives from our belief in the …
Random Thoughts: On OpenStack
OpenStack is over 5 years old now. I have seen the project from days when many pundits claimed its not needed or it is a dead project or what not. These are some of my thoughts about the overall project & where it i s headed. Community: I think OpenStack is one of the biggest …
Notes from OpenStack India Day
I know this post should have been published a bit earlier, but I have been sick for few days and therefore this delay! Last week we fervently celebrated Openstack India Day. It was the fourth one in the past 3 years. I am very happy the way the OpenStack project has taken over and particularly …
Notes from OpenStack summit, Vancouver
I was very ecstatic to attend the recently concluded OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. While the summit was the main focal point of my trip, I was elated to bump into my friends and colleagues. After almost five years I was reunited with my very old friend Razique & Heiko.During the initial days of the documentation …
Technology as we saw in 2014.
I know i am little late in posting this, but wiseman said its better late than none. 2014 was year with announcement all around technology. It had some surprises as well & biggest of all MSFT taking .Net to open source. Cloud Foundry foundation announced. This announcement will add more value/credibility to overall project. Other vendors/enterprise …
OpenStack Summit, Hong Kong
To those who don`t know i have joined SwiftStack as community/solutions engineer. Most of my time during this summit i spent meeting a lot many interesting people around our booth. I was more interested in whats HOT from OpenStack Swift front & Mario wrote a nice blog summarizing over all talks sessions related to Swift. …
OpenStack @OSIdays, India 2013
At OSI Days Bangalore, India we OpenStack India team organized a mini-conf. It was well accepted & we had many new faces participating as attendees as well as speakers. You can check the schedule of event here Its great to see so many students and professional folks joining our event. Last but not least Q/A session …
OpenStack Day India, September 2013
I know am too late to write about it but its better to write about an event rather than not. Its been great year for OpenStack India community, we crossed over 1700 members & at same time during the event met a lot many startup folks. Some of them are simple system integrators and some …
Technology as i see in 2014
1. Sql is not dead Well i remember people calling SQL based databases historic or dead and what not. I don`t see it going anywhere. Oracle will keep minting $$ & on Open Source champions like MySql and Postgres will go along well in deployment with most web CMS & technology. Even the cloud …