Life
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Life’s Ever-Evolving Melody
Facebook. A creature of habit, bringing up old memories and showcasing them in full glory. So a few days back Facebook surfaced a memory of a line that I wrote 9 years ago. Continue reading
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IT Architects: Why business would not fund my project?
What is role of an IT Architect? Usually when we think of Information technology architecture, we think about UML diagrams, patterns and practices, reference architectures, technology transformations, and lot more technical stuff. What teams think of Architects? Continue reading
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Software Architecture? What Software Architecture?
Let’s start with a small exchange, experienced by almost all of us; developers at some point in their life. Rookie Dev 1: What is that architecture diagram and the document? Dev 2: Nothing bro, just that architect and BA had fun for 4 weeks on-site and gave us this 1 document and now expect us… Continue reading
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People manager: To be or not to be
Recently having a discussion over a few things and career growth came to fore. As the discussion was with few of my older students (was a college teacher, in some other life… ) and colleagues, naturally it tended towards how can one grow in their career. Surprisingly, the answer from most of them was one… Continue reading
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Reflections of 2015: The year gone by…
…and here is the last day of the year 2015. As the year comes to close, it is time to reflect on what has transpired during the year. Continue reading
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When worlds collide, what happens to IT?
Every now and then, we, the people in IT field keep on hearing stuff about the next big thing or the latest buzzword. Be it Analytics, Big Data, Cloud and more recently Internet of Things (IoT). Every year or two, new buzzwords come up and start defining the timelines. Truely, things are moving at speed… Continue reading
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Coding and life; what our kids are missing
Wandering around the land of Facebook, came across a video (watch it above) shared by a common friend. It got me thinking back in the time when I first got access to a PC (maybe way back in 1988 or 89) with a green screen and a blinking cursor announcing proudly the DOS prompt. I just… Continue reading
A Mindful Journey 