Things i like about Chennai

I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. Food Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa/idli/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken …

RabbitMQ webUI & Ubuntu

I heard about RabbitMq webUI from my friend Ritesh. I felt it will be helpful for anyone who wants to understand queue workflow playing with OpenStack. After reading found this for getting the same on Ubuntu 12.04. Installing RabbitMQ Server # apt-get install rabbitmq-server Checking list of installed plugin. # rabbitmq-plugins list [ ] amqp_client …

OpenStack Summit, Portland & me.

I been lucky  this time to attend the OpenStack Summit summit hosted in Portland. Why am saying lucky because :–  (photo credit @nikiacosta) 1. I was finally able to meet a lot of developers and friends whom i been interacting over 2 years on IRC for help/support related to various OpenStack related issues. 2. I could …

OpenStack: Grizzly release is here!!

Yesterday the latest stable release of OpenStack code name  “GRIZZLY” got released. I am adding here list of  interesting blogs & stats which can be helpful to get more details about it. https://www.openstack.org/software/grizzly/press-release Press Release http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly Offical Blog http://www.slideshare.net/laurensell/openstack-grizzly-release Official Announcement Slide http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/04/openstack-swift-grizzly-release/  Swift updates in Grizzly http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/04/04/companies-contributing-to-openstack-grizzly-analysis/  Companies Contributing to Grizzly https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Grizzly Release Note http://www.openstack.org/software/grizzly/  Grizzly Contributors List …

OpenStack Swift in a box (folsom/ubuntu 12.04)

Last week i was at PES IT college, Bangalore  for a workshop on OpenStack Swift. I had to get them (students) a hands on of the same. So i went through the video & resources which Joe Arnold created explaining about swift. (http://swiftstack.com/training/swift-install/) So essentially what i have done here is extension of what was explained on Swiftatack …

Ubuntu MIR & Rolling release.

Almost everyone from community has written in great length & depth about how recent rolling release and MIR announcement has been Canonical`s decision. I am not writing this blog to prove anyone wrong or taking side with anyone. What Canonical has done for community & spreading word of Linux has been incredible. They are an Enterprise and …

Event Report : Linux User Group Chennai meetup

I am almost over a week late to post this blog. I was out in Pune for our other Openstack mini-conf which was held in Pune on 15th Feb. I will be blogging about same later this week. I had this opportunity to speak about cloud computing and OpenStack in February month Linux User Group …

5 Indian startups revolutionized e-commerce in India

So i felt like sharing the web portals which just revolutionized whole e-commerce business in India. I selected 5 such portals along with their business revenue source via Internet. Flipkart.com   Started as online bookstore now sells almost everything. In short i would say its AMAZON of India. I am a big fan of them. One new …