Being customer-centric is a great cultural trait and a common aspiration in many startups. But can a founder be guilty of doing too much customer service? I couldn’t help but think of this recently as I watched Amod’s recent interview with Clearfeed. It made me reflect again on the long […]
[LinkedIn thread: https://bit.ly/3kzZqZN, Twitter thread: https://bit.ly/3osr4t3] nice: … kind, pleasing, agreeable, .. Merriam-Webster Greying hair has meant helping people in my network – with careers, decisions, strategy, and sundry. One of the most common predicaments I see people face is in taking decisions that may displease someone. Why is this […]
I started the Qubole office in Bangalore in Jan 2012, roughly at the same time the company itself started, and ran it until Oct 2020. The India team eventually grew to ~200 out of a worldwide team of ~320. The majority of R&D, half of Technical Support, and later parts […]
I took a long hiatus from writing on this blog. Work at Qubole kept me busy, the WP install had some issues that I didn’t have the time and energy to debug – and finally – I started writing on other sites (LinkedIn/Quora). My journey with Qubole ended a few […]
It’s been ten months or so since I have been in Bangalore. My voracious appetite for news and analysis now includes (in addition to Nyt/Wapo etc.) – regular feeds of Hindu, Firstpost and links from many more local contacts on FB/Quora. There’s finally a point where one thinks that one […]
Like many good things in life – there’s a good chance that the IIT-JEE is coming to an end. That’s progress. I felt elated today morning to read that IIT-Kanpur had decided to not join in this backward forward march. And for a brief minute – I remembered how the […]
Gigaom broke the story on Qubole late yesterday. I haven’t blogged for a couple of years now. It seemed little fun to rage against stuff – or to put expression to ideas that didn’t seem to have a chance to materialize. Ideas need a successful business plan to make a positive […]
HBase + Map-Reduce is a really awesome combination. In all the back and forths about NoSQL – one of the things that’s often missed out is how convenient it is to be able to do scalable data analysis directly against large online data sets (that new distributed databases like HBase […]
Thanks to everyone who responded (in different forums). i will try to summarize the responses made on the comments to my initial post as well as some of the substantive discussions at Dave’s blog and news.ycombinator. The things i have heard are roughly in this order: Data loss scenario under […]
(The opinions in this article are entirely mine – although i owe my education in part to other people) (Update: Please do read the followup. Conversations around the web on this topic are well tracked here) Background Recently i have had to look at Dynamo in close detail as part […]