I have been asking a few questions to myself over the past few months: 1. Am I happy? 2. Am I enjoying my day job? 3. What’s wrong with me? If anything? 4. Where should I see myself 10 years down the line? 5. Is this how life goes on? I am not sure if …
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2013: Year just passed
[Warning: Not a tech blog] I will keep it simple & try to summarize what all went to my life in 2013 in all fronts. Personal: Made few friends & some walked away, part of life. Trips: Traveled to cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Sf, Portland & Hong Kong for conference/presentations or …
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 …
Happy 30th Birthday GNU!!
GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!” has turned 30 years. Thanks to Richard Stallman (RMS) for this wonderful initiative along with lot many volunteers . The best part is over 30 years the project has grown to new dimension. We are using it many times in our day to day life without …
Open, (insert whatever here) when it comes to selling technology.
Off late everyone started loving the term OPEN & pushing/re-aligning/re-defining the product around it & it frustrates me. So whenever i hear some legacy hardware vendor or proprietary software vendor mentioning term OPEN i just feel like Mehh… The real definition of OPEN is Open Source Open Design Open Development Open Community …
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Please don`t build your community this way
I been seeing a new trend which is bad for any community. Just added few points here 1. Doing senseless Press Release out of anything. 2. Instead of your product talking SHIT about opponents/competitors product 3. Creating fake twitter accounts for bitching [This one got deleted thankfully] 4. Last but not the least by making …
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People(tech) would like to meet before i die
Linus Torvalds The man who wrote Linux kernel & maintains the overall project. He is also behind a distributed version control and source code management (SCM) system. I know many people hate him because of his response to devs in kernel mailing list. He has his own unique way of addressing issue. Eric S. Raymond ESR is wrote The Cathedral …
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