Saturday, November 12, 2016

Azure rules the roost



While Microsoft was a late entrant in the Cloud services space with Amazon already taking a lion's share of the work involved, it has definitely caught up some lost space in the past 3 years. Apart from MS Azure being a natural first choice for Microsoft shops trying to get their feet wet in the Public cloud space, there are some startups who are trying their options with this technology.
I have written a recent article on "Azure rules the roost" at

http://microsoft.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/windows-azure-ruling-the-roost-nid-23249-cid-50.html

The World of Open Source

With several options in the Javascript Framework space, it can easily become pretty confusing which frameworks to look at and eventually implement. Started as an inhouse project, Google's AngularJS library quickly caught up in the market as a UX framework of choice. Given that Material design with its flat and clean interface is quickly becoming popular, Google is not leaving any stone unturned to implement a framework for this as well.

I have written a new article on the World of Open Source with specifics on AngularJS Material at

http://opensource.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/the-world-of-open-source-nid-23335-cid-92.html

Today and tomorrow of ECM

Enterprise Content Management(ECM) strategy in the cloud is quickly becoming an effective mechanism for companies to manage their content without having to worry about accompanying typical concerns around archival, disaster recovery and storage. The explosion of mobile applications has also necessitated the existence of an effective API strategy around this approach. In my article, I try to deal with the challenges around this and possible alternatives to address this.

http://enterprise-content-management.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/the-today-and-tomorrow-of-ecm-nid-23305-cid-129.html

Collaborating for Success

Despite a lot of discussion around collaboration and the value therein, traditional tools have not been able to capture the true business value of ideas that came up during collaboration sessions due to a variety of reasons. Some of these being inability to capture cross language, cross cultural, gesture and voice based inputs that had inherent values but could not be translated into any tangible benefits. I have tried to come up with some ideas in this space at :
http://collaboration-solutions.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/collaborating-for-success-nid-23281-cid-124.html


Sunday, June 12, 2016

First passenger drone car cleared

The first passenger drone car has been cleared for testing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/worlds-first-passenger-drone-testing-ehang-nevada

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Some of the misconceptions of the marriage between Big Data and cloud can be cleared using the following article.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/12/6-challenges-cloud-overcome/



Sunday, December 13, 2015

Salesforce

Trying to understand the Functionality of Salesforce and how the inner working of the platform helps customize the needs for the enterprise. Found some great resources at Trails ..

https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/trail/force_com_dev_beginner





Saturday, October 31, 2015

Sunday, October 04, 2015

Everybody is suddenly copying Microsoft

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Beacon issues

As the argument rages on about what is the best way to reach out mobile shoppers through their devices, the most obvious answer seems to be the Beacon strategy that has been used immediately.
Having said that, there are areas that need to be carefully considered before a blanket solution is proposed. The article talks about some of the challenges that come alongwith a Beacon strategy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2015/08/24/why-targets-beacon-strategy-is-doomed/

As we see Beacon proliferation, we will need to look at fine tuning this strategy to come up with an effective final solution.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Eddystone

After so much activity and discussions around Eddystone, some simple thoughts around how it has made significant changes in the IOT landscape :


  • IOS , Android and more ....
Given that folks have been playing around the iBeacon spec and Beacons from Estimotes, Motorola etc for a while, it is a well known fact that the current landscape is more aligned towards the iOS users. Given that a little over two third of the world's users use Android, this had to be corrected...Eddystone gets us there

  • No App...That's fine
With Beacons, the users had to be using your application to make it really effective. Now with Eddystone, there can be URLs that can be broadcasted which do not need your apps to be installed. You can use Eddystone to send a link to your visitors to your application on the App store or something similar and also feature current promotions

  • Context Galore
With Eddystone, there is also a Telemetry option which allows broadcast sensor - driven data on the beacon's state and the environment around it. Data can be used to control factors around specific parameters. Different actions can be triggered based on the changes in environmental and weather conditions. Warehouse, Hotel conditions, Collecting weather factors, Notifications to preferred customers etc are just some of the huge applciations which can be used. 



  • Proximity factor
Using Eddystone URL, merchants can push URLs linked to their content, web page or personalized content system to patrons who do not have their applications installed. That way, folks near shopping centers or malls can receive notifications about the merchant offers and have context around that data, 

Hyperloop discussion

Based on the Hyperloop discussion by Mr Elon Musk, efforts are on for a transportation system that "would whisk travelers between cities at speeds topping 760 miles per hour. Passengers would ride inside pods shooting through a network of low-pressure tubes, with the pods surfing electromagnetic pulses rather than carrying engines of their own.".

While this system sounds extremely enticing for folks who have dreamt about getting to workplaces quicker, there are several challenges that will need to be addressed before it becomes "production" grade.

The initial design seems to be over simplified for such a complex system. Some of the challenges include
  • Seismic factors
In areas like San Francisco and Los Angeles, that are sitting on top of a potential seismic activity zone, the design of such a transportation mode which would sit as a welded steel tube on top of concrete pillars with dampers will have its own challenges.
  • More connections for Pylon
Currently the transportation system is just kept as a sort of tube that is hug from a Pylon but there has to be some sort of a connection to keep it from sliding off the side of the pylon. 
  • System Communications
This system will require some sort of tracking system of where each capsule was along the route.  A web of substations, communication centers will be needed 
  • Thermal Expansion

The current design claims that no expansion joints are needed because “tube is not rigidly fixed at any point” and uses “dampers” instead. But simple calculations show damper attachment to each pylon would not allow for the kind of movement that will happen.


Saturday, August 08, 2015

Tesla considers its own autonomous ride-sharing business

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Comparison between c#, RoR, Python and Java

I was looking for a good comparison of the 4 side by side and found this interesting spreadsheet that someone had prepared. Still a WIP but thought was interesting

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijQq32h9g_HVQWOyMJWawVtBpYqlyfgkHRGPfb0SUyI/pub?hl=en

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Google photos

Since the time the announcement for using Google photis has come out, have been following the tech  that goes into making it so extensible.. Following are the nice features in it

http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/13/10-reasons-to-start-using-google-photos/

Javascript framework comparison

Having been following several JS frameworks in the works implementing some of the needs of our clients, this is a good article talking about a comparison helping choosing of the right framework for use:

https://blog.stamplay.com/choosing-your-javascript-framework/


Thursday, June 11, 2015

UI Developer must haves

A nice article on the attributes that are needed for a Front end developer :

http://mashable.com/2015/06/11/qualities-front-end-developer/

Sunday, June 07, 2015

Observer Design Pattern with ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework

A very good article on how to use the Observer pattern using ASP.NET 5 and Entity framework implementing the Visitor Design pattern in real life software scenario :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/998560/Customer-Invoicing-System-Applying-Visitor-Design


Saturday, June 06, 2015

Python or R?

With so much work going on in the field of Data Science, the logical questions that most new entrants ask is when do we use R and when is Python effective. Here is a simple article that tries to tackle this question :

http://blog.dominodatalab.com/comparing-python-and-r-for-data-science/


Friday, June 05, 2015

Why companies build their own languages

A very good article on why companies like Google and Apple came out with their own programming languages :

http://www.businessinsider.com/wwdc-apple-swift-google-go-2015-6