Book Review — Hit Refresh

We have heard FANG. And FAANG. There is an obvious missing element here — Microsoft.

Microsoft had lost several years of market leadership because of the declining software licensing business and the yet-to-pick-up cloud business. But they are coming back…

5 takeaways from my India trip

Since I first moved to the US, my frequency of trips back to India have reduced in frequency and in duration. Here I record the 5 key observations from my most recent trip. I do sometimes wonder if India has always been this and it is only my perception that changes every…

Book Review — The Phoenix Project

Does an excellent job of telling why we need DevOps. And that’s it.

The ideal audience for this book is someone who wants to know the relevance of DevOps. Someone who has spent years and years in Dev or Ops, but can’t begin to comprehend this…

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Insightful, not necessarily engaging

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Industries Of The Future is a must-read for anyone who is curious about the bleeding edge changes occurring in…

Book Review — 1991

How PV Narasimha Rao made history

Economy and politics watchers fondly recall 1991 as a watershed year for India. This is the year India “opened up” their economy, this is the year we made a significant step towards abolishing license-quota-permit raj. But who was…

What I wrote 7 years ago still rings true. Of course, there are couple of charges I want airlines to impose.