Meeting Report: Pune Rails Meetup (Dec 2009)

(This is a report of Pune Ruby on Rails meetup that happened on 12th December. This report was originally written by Gautam Rege on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.)
It was great to be a part of the Pune Rails Meetup which was held yesterday (19th December, [...]

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Conference report: The 4th IndicThreads conference on Java Technologies

Dhananjay Nene writes an indepth technical report (along with links to presentations) on the IndicThreads conference on Java technologies held in Pune in December 2009.

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PuneChips Editor’s Blog – SystemVerilog and Designer Productivity

As chip design complexity increases, designer productivity is failing to keep up. Industry must innovate and provide design tools that address this problem to survive and prosper.

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Pune’s KQInfoTech is porting Sun’s ZFS File-System to Linux

Pune-based KQInfoTech is working on porting Sun’s ZFS file-system to the Linux Platform. ZFS is arguably one of the best file-systems available today, and Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems for servers by new startups. So, having ZFS available on Linux would be great. And, With many years of experience in [...]

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ASIC Verification: Trends and Challenges

(This is a guest post for PuneTech by Arati Halbe, who has close to 9 years experience in ASIC front end design and verification. Post silicon validation and FPGA prototyping is her recent area of interest and expertise. Arati has worked with Wipro Technologies and Conexant Systems. Arati did her B.E. from University of Pune [...]

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Musings on why Cloud Computing will prevail…

Today’s post is a guest post by Suhas Kelkar. Suhas leads the Innovation & Incubation Lab at BMC Software India. Prior to BMC he was the Vice President of Product Management at Digite, an enterprise software company in the field of Project Portfolio Management. See his linked-in profile for details.

In the recent Hype Cycle for [...]

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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.

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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 by [...]

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Resisting Scala – Why good managers resist great new technologies

Dhananjay Nene is pretending to be a manager who is resisting exhortations from his techies that the group should switch all development to Scala, the hot new language that is touted as a long-term replacement for Java.

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Call for Speakers – IndicThreads Conference on Java Technologies, Pune Dec 2009

The IndicThreads Java conference is a technology conference that happens in Pune every year. The conference has in-depth, vendor-neutral technical sessions about a wide range of topics in the Java space. If you have done some interesting work in or related to Java, you should consider submitting a proposal.
PuneTech has detailed coverage of last year’s [...]

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