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 …

2015 PASSED, 2016 WELCOME!!

Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2015 been amazing in following ways : Joined minio.io as developer evangelist [blog will follow soon :)] Met long time friends Razique & Heiko  in person after interacting with them for over 4 years on IRC regarding  OpensStack project. Two of my junior buddies Prashant & Jithesh …

Random Thoughts: On Depression

Woke up & read this r/linux thread  where Ian Murdock [Debian Linux project founder] tweets are mentioned. Ian says he is committing suicide.  I will be more than happy if these tweets turn out to be hoax or coming from someone else who gained control of his Twitter account. This incident got me thinking about one of …

Random Thoughts: On-boarding new developers to open source projects. Then & Now.

We are entering in 2016, my journey to open source started in 2004-05 when i attended one of the Linux User Group meetup in New Delhi, India. Those days we had to pay one$ for surfing internet for an hour, having a dial-up internet at home was considered luxury. What was the scene those days? …

Random Thoughts: On Identity

When we were born we had no identity, we were just another creature on planet Earth. Then came : Parents : religion, caste, surname Physical appearance: Looks, Color, Weight, Height Personal nature: Empathic, Rude, Jolly Job & Education: MIT/IIT/IIM/XLRI/MIT/Harvard Social Status: Bank balance, Car, House You will be judged & reminded about your identity at …

Random thoughts: On Romanticizing Failures

People say success & failures are complementary. It is like two side of coin & both co-exist. Over last few years I have noticed in every spectrum people are celebrating failures be it cover page of famous magazine, online portal, help/advice avenues like Quora or social media portals like Twitter, Facebook, Medium or LinkedIn.  I …

Moving On, last day at The New Stack

Leaving an organization is extremely difficult especially when  you have been part of it from day Zero[or before] or a 1st/2nd hire.  But as someone said every great thing comes with an expiry date hence here I am writing my post on my last day of work at The New Stack. The Journey I got …

Nepal is suffering & you are all responsible

Ordinary Nepali friends are in real pain & I have written about same before in my previous blog. Who are the real culprits for current situation: Nepali Politicians Nepali politicians are thick skinned. They are part of every deal be it taking bribe from India or China for giving contracts or  channeling  money to personal pocket …

Random Thoughts: On television, newspaper & media

When I was a little kid we only had Doordarshan, India’s national channel & It had limited hours dedicated for news. Currently we have 25+ hindi & english channel catering 24/7 news.  If we add up entertainment/lifestyle/sports the list will go over 200. It is same with newspapers. I have not purchased a newspaper in …