Archive for the ‘Live Blogging’ category.
Event Report: Dr. Ramesh Raskar of MIT Media Lab
(This is a live blog of the talk given by Dr. Ramesh Raskar, of MIT Media Lab in Pune. Since this is a live-blog, it will not be as well structured as a regular article, and might contain more-than-normal grammatical errors.) About EyeNetra EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs less than Rs. [...]
Event Report: CarWale.com CEO Mohit Dubey
(This is a live-blog of the TiE Pune talk by Mohit Dubey, Founder and CEO of CarWale.com. This is essentially an unorganized collection of interesting/insightful statements made by Mohit during his talk.) “Carwale.com, the story so far: Started in 2005, seed funding in 2006, hit break-even point in 2007, series A funding in 2008, got [...]
Event Report: “Amplify Mobility” event on Mobile Tech at Bharati Vidyapeeth
This Saturday, there was a day-long event on mobile technology organized by Amplify Mindware, a group of educational institutions housed at Bharati Vidyapeeth. This is a live-blog of three of the talks at the event; (which is unfortunately being posted with a 2-day delay because my internet connection did not work at the venue.) There [...]
TechWeekend LiveBlog: NoSQL + Database in the Cloud #tw6
This is a quick-and-dirty live-blog of TechWeekend 6 on NoSQL and Databases in the Cloud. First, I (Navin Kabra) gave an overview of NoSQL systems. Since I was talking, I wasn’t able to live-blog it. When not to use NoSQL Next, Dhananjay Nene talked about when to not use NoSQL. Main points: People know SQL. [...]
LiveBlog #tw5: Intro to Functional Programming & Why it’s important
This is a live-blog of TechWeekend 5 on Functional Programming, with talks by Dhananjay Nene (Why FP), Baishampayan Ghose (Clojure) and Bhasker Kode (Erlang)
Cloud computing – Report of IndicThreads Conference on Cloud Computing 2010
(This is a live-blog of the Indic Threads Conference on Cloud Computing, that’s being held in Pune. Since it’s being typed in a hurry, it is not necessarily as coherent and complete as we would like it to be, and also links might be missing. Also, this has notes only on selected talks. The less [...]
Live-Blog: Overview of High Performance Computing by Dr. Vipin Chaudhary
This is a live-blog of the talk on “Trends in High Performance Computing” given by Dr. Vipin Chaudhary, CEO of Computation Research Labs (CRL), the makers of the Eka supercomputer
Event report: POCC session on cloud apps for your startup
This is a live-blog of the Pune Open Coffee Club session on use of cloud apps for your business. Since this is being typed as the session is in progress, it might be a bit incoherent and not completely well-structured, and there are no links. This session is being run as a panel discussion. Santosh [...]
Tech Trends for 2015, by Anand Deshpande, Shridhar Shukla, Monish Darda
What are the technology trends that will drive the software industry in 2015? Notes from a panel discussion on this topic at MIT Pune.
Web Scalability and Performance – Real Life Lessons (Pune TechWeekend #3)
Last Saturday, we had TechWeekend #3 in Pune, on the theme of Website Scalability and Performance. Mukul Kumar, co-founder, and VP of Engineering at Pubmatic, talked about the hard lessons in scalability they learnt on their way to building a web service that serves billions of ad impressions per month. Here are the slides used [...]