Arctic SRE Adoption Framework Part 2

<h1>Introduction</h1> This is part 2 of the two part series about the SRE adoption framework - Arctic. Part 1 was published last month and can be acc

New Site Reliability Engineering book

Excited to share my book on SRE is now released. This book explains how site reliability engineering concepts and practices can be used

Upcoming Site Reliability Engineering Book

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Arctic SRE Adoption Framework Part 1

<h1>Introduction</h1> We all are aware of the extent at which the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation. Many services which were

My first book on SRE

With just 2 days left in 2020, I am happy to mention that the draft version of my first book is about to complete. The book is on Site Reliability Eng

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What is Git, GitHub and GitLab?

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SEO tips for 2017 from my own experiments

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Many of my friends are now attending interviews. I thought I will jot down some of the questions I faced and some of them which I prefer to ask. Not j

Many firms are now moving their applications from Sybase 12.5 to 15. Surely developers/designers will be looking out for info on 15 in the net (like m

Deferred compilation is a real good feature introduced in Sybase 15.0.2 which solves the problem with the use of local variables and temp tables insid

While tuning queries in 12.5, we turn on forceplan to force the table order and also hint indexes. Now in 15, we see that not only table order in a jo

In Sybase 15, the optimizer has a property called optimizer goal. Each of the goals have criteria within themselves (like turning on NLJ, turning off

This is something which we rarely face. And it is very annoying when it happens .. We need to access a Sybase ASE server from a script and it is not i

Iterate faster with PWAs

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Building AI chatbot using Rasa NLU, Flask and Telegram

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Chatbot Maya is now on Messenger

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Capital Markets Chatbot: Maya is here

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Dodd Frank for OTC Derivatives: The basics

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OTC D Transaction Reporting: Common challenges

Since the G20 Summit in 2009, there were several regulations across the globe around OTC derivatives to improve transparency, reduce counterparty risk

Margin Requirements for Uncleared OTC Derivatives

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MiFID 2/MiFIR: An overview

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Exchange Trading in India: An Overview

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Memes in corporate communications

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After seeing so many news and theories around the virus since several months, this is what I understood and put together as code. Hope it will make fe

When it comes to building new platforms a network or a market place, one of the key questions that gets asked is how are you going to solve the chick

Are you excited with so many new job openings and getting tempted to the luring pay packages? Have you decided to move-on to a new job? Being som

Many of us have heard of Scrum and some of the people reading this might be developing products using Scrum. But Scrum is mainly applicable for "true

Though this blog says this is a reflection of the year 2015 in my life, this includes last couple of weeks of 2014. If you are not interested in know

There is a lot that gets talked about teams working in traditional ways and thoughts of transforming them to Agile ways of working. Before a particula

The 4 Dots

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I have met multiple entrepreneurs in Hyderabad in the last few months and below are few things that they have told me. Every meet added more clarity a

Competition followed by Innovation

Since early days of career, there are so many times we would have heard of the word innovation and were probably given the guidance from senior manage