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Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala

Hari Rajagopala

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Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala
Feb 12, 2016 · 8 min read

The Economics of Attention

The other day at lunch, in the course of a discussion on startup business models, a friend of mine remarked that…

Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala
Nov 3, 2015 · 4 min read

The Discreet Charms of Distributed Systems

There is something strange about how we are building new distributed systems.

Distributed systems are supposed to be cheaper but less reliable and less secure alternatives to centralized systems. The world-wide-web (the Internets…

Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala
Oct 12, 2015 · 4 min read

The Internet of Tiny Things

In his now much cited article, co-founder of resin.io, Alexandros Marinos, makes a case for an IoT ecosystem made almost entirely, if not exclusively, of devices running Linux (or presumably some other high-level OS).

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Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala
Oct 9, 2015 · 4 min read

AWS IoT: Wherefore Complexity

Here’s a puzzle. Go read the man page on the POSIX fork(2) syscall. No arguments, one return value and about 20 lines of descriptive text. Right. Now go read Microsoft’s version of it. Ten arguments and about 200 lines of text.

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Hari Rajagopala
Hari Rajagopala
Oct 9, 2015 · 7 min read

Freemium and the Web App

Almost every Web Application you can think of (Dropbox, Evernote, Trello, Github, Bitbicket, Slack …) uses some…