Archive for April, 2010
The most thought provoking talk from TEDx Mumbai
I had the good fortune of attending the TEDx Mumbai earlier this month. The organisers did a fantastic job of curating the show. So much so that some people commented that TEDx Mumbai outdid the TED India at Mysore! While I wasn’t at the TED, I absolutely loved some of the talks at TEDx. Here [...]
RAMClouds – an evolutionary concept in Cloud Computing
If you ask an architect or a performance engineer for ways to speed up any application, caching is most likely to be the first response. In this, an application in its entirety or at least the most frequently executed part is cached in the RAM of a server leading to faster response and hence faster [...]
Interesting Reads
Challenges to India’s growth story India’s path to being an economic superpower and the challenges on way are commonly discussed topics. The most frequently cited challenge is the poor infrastructure. Somehow another one, social inequity and internal strife, is seldom discussed in spite of it being stated as a larger challenge by many reports. Its [...]
Interesting reads
This is some stuff I’ve read recently and thought of sharing. The spat between IRDA and SEBI on ULIPs has been ugly and the only victim is the common investor. This article by Jeff Gerth on Propublica shows how such spats are more common (than at least I thought) and lead to sub-optimal outcomes for [...]