Abhirama’s Blog

There is an interesting bug opened against Kafka.

I happened to read the comic by zenpencil on Jim Henson yesterday while reminiscing on the comic by the same artist on Bill Waterson’s advice.

We had an admin interface from which people could download an Excel report.

In the world of software, failure is a certainty.

Rahul Gandhi allegedly made this statement.

In the gym that I go to, there is a guy whose job is to sanitize(spray, clean, rub etc) the equipment after each person uses them.

I was reading this article about a startup that is launching satellites for imaging the earth.

Last round of the recently concluded stripectf was in Go lang.

Where does your startup stand on the below?

Let me lay it out straight in the beginning, we Indians are big time suckers for simplicity in others.

Recently I read in the newspaper that Karnataka government is planning to regulate multiplex movie ticket prices.

I was going through the VC interaction posted by Everpix guys.

I fractured my leg and Pavitra wanted to send the x-ray to my brother in law who is a doctor.

There have been multitude of blog posts/tweets comparing AAP to a startup.

I used to sit next to the CS(Customer Service) team for sometime and I heard them instructing certain steps to customers to redeem campaign codes the second time.

When I was new to the software industry, I always used to wonder why managers and leads delegate and ask for updates instead of being hands-on.

Someone posted to our mailing list, urging us to enroll in the electoral list and vote for Narendra Modi.

Employee appraisals are a cause of butt ache in almost every organization.

Anyone who has been part of a team, be it as an individual contributor or as a lead/manager, would sense a feeling of deja vu after reading this succinct post.

Whenever I hear about the government upgrading some utility website, I die a bit inside.

In the initial days, when I was trying to bootstrap the FreeCharge tech team, my team members were always trying to make me move us away from svn to git.

Why google when there was lycos?

Fresh out of college, in my first company GXS, after our training, me and another guy were put into a legacy maintenance project.

Recently, there has been a brouhaha in the tech community over Marissa Mayer’s views on work from home.

The dark side of perfectionism. fabrizio-chiagano-rDwIXsgb2LY-unsplash Being a perfectionist is all the rage these days.

One beautiful Sunday evening our quartz jobs running inside tomcat server started to freeze.

I just finished reading something that got me thinking about society’s discomfort with using the body as a means to succeed.

Hacker news denizens have a penchant for articles on hiring.

I just finished watching Looper and really loved it.

6th January 1980; young, 20 something artist; supremely gifted with a melodious voice; has no connections in the entertainment industry; zilch sugar daddies who can put her in touch with the right people in the recording business.

Part Ninja, part philosopher, part geek—awesome in whole.