Monday, March 28, 2016

Ruminating on Descriptive, Preventive and Prescriptive Analytics

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Michael Wu  had made the 3 types of analytics famous - Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive. A good article on this is available on In...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Ruminating on Design Thinking

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Design Thinking is a philosophy or a set of principles that can be applied to any creative endeavor. User Experience SMEs have been using s...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Ruminating on IoT revolutionizing the supply chain

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Smart sensors (IoT) are pushing the frontiers of supply chain technology. By utilizing sophisticated sensors, Logistics Providers can enabl...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Ruminating on EMPI

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EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) is a consolidated hub of all patient related information that would act as a single source of truth....
Friday, February 12, 2016

Analysis of Healthcare spend in the US

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The US department of Health has released interesting stats on the healthcare spend across various dimensions. The report is a bit old and a...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Ruminating on Usage based Insurance

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Many Auto Insurance firms have started launching usage-based insurance (UBI) products - i.e. based on how much you drive (miles) and how yo...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Combining NLP with Machine Learning

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SAS has published an interesting article titled - ' Your personal data scientist '.  I have always been a fan of virtual assistants...

Netty at Apple Inc.

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that most of Apple's cloud services run on Netty . Norman Maurer had posted an excellent presenta...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

UX vs. UI

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Found the following good articles that lay out the difference between UX and UI. http://www.onextrapixel.com/2014/04/24/the-gap-between-u...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

List of Prototyping tools

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Found a good list of prototyping tools on cooper.com . Liked the way they have compared the tools on various parameters :)
Saturday, December 12, 2015

PhoneGap vs. Cordova

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Many folks are still confused on the distinction between PhoneGap and Apache Cordova. There are so many articles on the web that further bl...

Building cool hybrid mobile apps - Lessons from Basecamp

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Basecamp has successfully utilized hybrid techniques for building their iOS and Android apps. The following links are worth a perusal to un...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Apple enforcing HTTPS connections using TLS v1.2

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In iOS 9, Apple has implemented a new security feature called as ATS (App Transport Security), which is enabled by default. So what is AT...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Git vs GitHub vs GitHub Enterprise

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A lot of folks get confused over the differences between Git and GitHub and use the words interchangeably. Also when folks talk about GitHu...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Ruminating on the UX Design Process

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Centerline has published a neat infographic illustrating the UX design process. While there are a  lot of UX related infographics on the ne...
Monday, December 07, 2015

Markdown and Pandoc

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Over the past decade, the simple Markdown text formatting syntax has gained a lot of popularity. Many bloggers and web writers have shifted...

Ruminating on SSL and encrypted URLs

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Recently, a colleague of mine asked an innocuous question that was quite interesting. We all knew that SSL protects the URL and hence it is...

Whitepaper on APIs - Digital Glue in the new economy

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Recently I coauthored a whitepaper on APIs and the important role they play in the digital economy. Link -  http://www.syntelinc.com/insi...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Orchestrating Microservices using Event Driven Architecture (EDA) paradigms

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If you follow the microservices architecture style, you would have a bunch of services running in their own independent process space. Bu...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Ruminating on the 'Infrastructure as Code' paradigm

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Setup (installation and configuration) of servers and other infrastructure components is a tedious process. In the olden days, process-or...

List of Microservices resources

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Paweł Pacana has compiled a long list of 72 useful resources to learn about Microservices  :) The link to the list of resources is here -...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Weird laptop battery problems and ridiculous solutions

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Laptops suffer from so many idiosyncratic battery problems and have their own ritual of try-n-test solutions that appear so weird ! Recen...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Classification of medical devices by FDA

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In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates any apparatus involved in diagnosing or treating disease. While we were worki...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Digital in brick-n-mortar stores

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While a lot of attention has been given to online experiences in digital transformation, there are a lot of opportunities in enhancing the ...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Managing Database Versions in an Agile Project

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Today we have a robust set of tools for code versioning, CI and release management - for e.g. Java, .NET, Ruby web or REST applications. Ex...
Sunday, October 04, 2015

Service Discovery Mechanisms in Microservices

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In a microservices based architecture, we would not know the number of instances of a server or their IP addresses beforehand. This is beca...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Handling failures and improving resilience in microservices

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In a microservices architecture, one has to build services that can handle failures. For e.g. If a microservice calls another dependent mic...

Ruminating on SemVer

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Semantic Versioning (aka SemVer) of components has become mainstream today. The official page laying out the guidelines is available here -...

Ruminating on Netflix Simian Army

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A friend of mine introduced me to the a suite of powerful tools used at Netflix for testing the resilience and availability of their servic...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Ruminating on Apple's DEP

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Apple's device enrollment program (DEP) makes it easy for enterprises to roll out the deployment of their apple devices to their employ...