Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Ruminating on Data Lake

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Anyone contemplating to understand a Data Lake should peruse the wonderful article by Martin Fowler on the topic -  http://martinfowler.com...
Monday, July 27, 2015

builtwith.com - A nifty tool

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We used to use browser tools such as Firebug to find out more 'backend' information about a particular site - for e.g. what servers...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Correlation does not imply Causation !

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One of the fundamental tenets that any analytics newbie needs to learn is that -  Correlation does not imply Causation ! Using statistica...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Using the Solver add-in in Excel for finding optimal solutions

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Today we learned about a nifty tool in Excel that can be used to solve 'maximizer' or 'most optimal' solution to problems. ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

How can large enterprises compete with new-age digital startups?

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Chief Executive magazine recently featured an article by  Nitin Rakesh  on how large enterprise can compete with digital startups. The art...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

import.io - Next Generation Web Crawler

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We had used many open source web crawlers in the past, but recently a friend of mine referred me to a cool tool at  import.io Import.io e...

Ruminating on Email marketing software

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Recently we were looking for a mass email software for a marketing use-case. Jotting down the various online tools/platforms that we are cu...

APIs in Fleet Management

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Fleet Management software is used by fleet owners to manage their moving assets. The software enables them to have a centralized data-store...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Ruminating on bimodal IT

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Over the past couple of years, Gartner has been evangelizing the concept of bimodal IT to organizations for succeeding in the digital age. ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ruminating on Section 508 Accessibility standards

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In the UX world, you would often come across the phrases such as "compliance with Section 508". So what exactly is Section 508 an...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Implementing sliding window aggregations in Apache Storm

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My team was working on implementing CEP (Complex Event Processing) capabilities using Apache Storm. We evaluated multiple options for doing...
Monday, June 01, 2015

Ruminating on Shipping Containers and Docker

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Today during one of the lectures at IIMB, I was introduced to a book called ' The Box ' by Mark Levinson. The book narrates the s...

Ruminating on bare metal cloud environments

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Virtualization has been the underpinning technology that powered the Cloud revolution. In a typical virtualized environment, you have the h...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Ruminating on Apple HealthKit backup

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While my team was working on the Apple HealthKit iOS APIs, we came to know a few interesting things that many folks are not aware of. Jotti...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Comparing two columns in excel to find duplicates

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Quite often, you have to compare two columns in excel to find duplicates or 'missing' rows. Though there are many ways to do this, ...

Depreciation of fixed assets in accounting

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Would like to recommend the following site that gives a very simple explanation of the concept of depreciation in accounting. Worth a perus...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Patient Engagement Framework for Healthcare providers

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HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) has published a good framework for engaging patients so as to improve health...

Ruminating on Open Graph Protocol

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Ever wondered how some links on Facebook are shown with an image and a brief paragraph? I dug deeper to understand what Facebook was doing ...

Router blocking HTTPS traffic?

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Recently I had got a new cloud router for my broadband connection. Though the speed was very good, I was facing intermittent problems in ac...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Applying Analytics to Clinical Trails

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The below link is a good article on using Big Data Analytics to improve the efficiency of clinical trials. http://archive.expresspharmaon...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Ruminating on the Open Bank Project

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A colleague of mine introduced me to the ' Open Bank Project '. It's an interesting open source project to create a generic API...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Exploring Apache Kafka..

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We had successfully used ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in many projects and never felt the need to explore any other message broker. Today, my coll...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Monitoring TOMEE using VisualVM

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A few years back, we moved to Jboss from Tomcat for our production servers, because there was no viable enterprise support for Tomcat. Toda...

Default tools in the JDK

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Found the below article worth a perusal. We get so used to using sophisticated tools that we forget there are things we can do with a bare J...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Does Digital Transformation need 'Skunk Works' kind of environment?

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Skunk Works is a term that originated during WWII and is the official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP). T...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Ruminating on Showrooming and Webrooming in the Digital Age

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When e-Commerce giants such as Amazon took the retail industry by storm, there was a lot of FUD on showrooming . As a digital native, even...
Friday, August 22, 2014

A good comparison of BLE and Classic Bluetooth

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The following link gives a good overview of the differences between BLE (Bluetooth low energy) and classic bluetooth. Definitely worth a pe...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

How does Facebook protect its users from malicious URLs?

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The following post gives a good overview of the various techniques (such as link shim) used by Facebook to protect its users from malicious...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Collection of free books from Microsoft

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Eric Lingman has provided links to a large collection of free Microsoft books on a variety of topics on his blog post (link below). http:...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Categorization of applications in IT portfolio

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During any portfolio rationalization exercise, we categorize applications based on various facets, as explained in one of my old posts here...