As I seek to re-discover the purpose and meaning of my life, I realize the joy is possibly in making what you do, count everyday. In school at the start of every textbook, we had something called a Gandhiji’s ‘talisman’. …

Traditionally any part of production code we have written invariably involves more than one component. Needless to say, these components need to interact with one another. The interaction is usually in the form of: master-slave client-server publisher-subscriber models. Lets narrow our discussion on the architectures that use the first two…

When I was picked out to carve to be part of a team in the software integration business, I naively assumed that it would be a “understand-design-plumb-it-and-forget” operation. Three plus years on, I am un-learning and re-learning everyday. Here are the tidbits. Ask what, how and why. Identify the stakeholders…

Long back, a friend and schoolmate lent me a book to read. Having not being much of a reader in the preceding decade, I casually set about turning the first few leaves of the book around dinner time. The book spoke about how “All Marketers are Liars”. The title was…

In my career as a programmer and engineer spanning close to 20 years, one of the most recurring daily tasks was finding why something that was working went bust. Of course, in tech circles they manifest as bugs, issues, regression, or field tickets. In the role of a triager, its…

In pandemic times, apartment dwellers like me still need to venture outside to rejuvenate ourselves. Here’s a list of things that I want to keep as options to carry during travel / picnic. Lets keep in mind that any home made food in general is a healthier bet than processed…

This is my first short story on medium. I know it needs a wee bit more substance. The good news is… it might get better.