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Tech Talk: Ruminating on Shipping Containers and Docker
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Monday, June 01, 2015. Ruminating on Shipping Containers and Docker. Today during one of the lectures at IIMB, I was introduced to a book called ' The Box. The book narrates the story of how the invention of the shipping container completely changed the face of global commerce. A snippet from the book -. A good article describing the differences between them is available ...
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Tech Talk: Correlation does not imply Causation !
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Friday, July 24, 2015. Correlation does not imply Causation! One of the fundamental tenets that any analytics newbie needs to learn is that - Correlation does not imply Causation! The faster windmills are observed to rotate, the more wind is observed to be. Therefore wind is caused by the rotation of windmills. The more firemen are sent to a fire, the more damage is done.
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Tech Talk: Ruminating on bimodal IT
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Ruminating on bimodal IT. Over the past couple of years, Gartner has been evangelizing the concept of bimodal IT to organizations for succeeding in the digital age. A good note by Gartner on the concept is available here. Mode 1, which refers to the traditional "run the business" model focuses on stability and reliability. Posted by Narendra Naidu.
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Tech Talk: Ruminating on Open Graph Protocol
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Monday, January 26, 2015. Ruminating on Open Graph Protocol. Ever wondered how some links on Facebook are shown with an image and a brief paragraph? I dug deeper to understand what Facebook was doing behind the scenes to visualize the link. For eg. we can add the following meta-tags in any web page and Facebook would parse these tags when you post the link to this page.
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Tech Talk: Patient Engagement Framework for Healthcare providers
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Monday, January 26, 2015. Patient Engagement Framework for Healthcare providers. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) has published a good framework for engaging patients so as to improve health outcomes. The following link provides a good reference for designing technology building blocks for improving patient experience. Posted by Narendra Naidu.
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Tech Talk: Comparing two columns in excel to find duplicates
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Thursday, February 05, 2015. Comparing two columns in excel to find duplicates. Quite often, you have to compare two columns in excel to find duplicates or 'missing' rows. Though there are many ways to do this, the following MS article gives a simple solution. Https:/ support.microsoft.com/kb/213367? Posted by Narendra Naidu. Labels: Tips and Tricks. Internet of Things (1).
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Tech Talk: Ruminating on Data Lake
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Wednesday, August 05, 2015. Ruminating on Data Lake. Anyone contemplating to understand a Data Lake should peruse the wonderful article by Martin Fowler on the topic - http:/ martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html. Jotting down important points from the article -. It is up-to the data scientist to extract the data and make sense of it. We still need Data Marts.
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Tech Talk: Router blocking HTTPS traffic?
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Monday, January 26, 2015. Router blocking HTTPS traffic? Recently I had got a new cloud router for my broadband connection. Though the speed was very good, I was facing intermittent problems in accessing HTTPS sites. For e.g. webmail would hang sometimes, payment gateway pages would not load, Amazon app would not load screens, etc. Posted by Narendra Naidu. Router blockin...
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Tech Talk: Ruminating on Apple HealthKit backup
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Ruminating on Apple HealthKit backup. While my team was working on the Apple HealthKit iOS APIs, we came to know a few interesting things that many folks are not aware of. Jotting down our findings -. HealthKit data is only locally stored on the user's device. HealthKit data is not automatically synced to iCloud. HealthKit is not available on iPads.
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Tech Talk: builtwith.com - A nifty tool
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, SOA, Performance Engineering, Design and Development tips on Java and .NET platforms. Monday, July 27, 2015. Builtwith.com - A nifty tool. We used to use browser tools such as Firebug to find out more 'backend' information about a particular site - for e.g. what servers does it run on? What server-side web technology is being used? What web content management tool is being used? A useful tool to have in the arsenal for any web-master. Internet of Things (1).