One of the issues with storing large amounts of backups data in Amazon S3 is writing custom scripts to delete the data after certain timestamp and also It will be painful enough to manage and maintain pruning tasks when you have large scale heterogenous data for 100;s...

I have been working with many customers over last 6 months on fixing performance issues across different stacks in production deployments. One of the tool that always comes to the rescue is strace - a process diagnostic tool. You can install it using one of your favorite...

So Taggle decided to move on instead of fighting for "last man standing in the game" - you can read more about whole story on Pluggd.in and also Mahesh Murthy's open letter on VC Circle to Taggle and John Kuruvilla's response to it {for more masala}. Here is my take...

I was part of panel discussion at HR4Startups event, IIM-B on 3rd December along with Amiya from  ZipDial, Pallav from FusionCharts and Kumud from SuperSeva on hiring, people management, challenges and what worked for us. I did a presentation on our beliefs and...

Netflix is poster boy of public cloud adoption for running large scale systems and their engineering blog has always shared most of their learnings and experience using AWS cloud - from designing fault tolerant systems, scaling simpleDB to Cassandra. The below presentation...

I have co-hosted AWS Cloud User Group Bangalore meetup for November at Kuliza Technologies with Sreekandh & Vivek.  This meetup theme was "Running Cassandra in Cloud" and was attended by around 15+ interested in exploring NoSQL solutions like Cassandra. We started the...

Heroku has launched a DBaaS for PostgreSQL - this is will be very useful given that PostgresSQL has large commuinty of users. You can sign up for it at http://postgres.heroku.com/ Also Heroku pitch is (as taken from their site) A powerful, reliable, and durable open...

Good thing about working at Kuliza is, I get to experiment, play and work with different stacks for our customers. Recently, we started working with one of our cloud customer, a fast growing startup based out of Bangalore. They run their SaaS application in AWS cloud...

AWS has added two important new features to their Elastic Load Balancer to help developers monitor their application response codes and improved DNS lookup. HTTP response code monitoring : Amazon ELB will now report the count of all http responses across all attached...