August, 2009

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Google App Engine Task Queues, Push vs. Pull Paradigm, and Web Hooks

Sachin Rekhi

Despite my post last week on the Shortcomings of Google App Engine and my decision to move away from it as a viable platform for upcoming projects, I have been impressed with the overall architecture and design of their experimental Task Queue API. Google throughout its years has been a leader in interface design and that has been reflected not only in the UI of the products they have built, but the countless API interfaces they have published.

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Interview with a Pure Product Manager

All About Product Management

In this audio interview I speak with the author of the blog Purist Product Management : Aziz Musa. I had the opportunity to work with Aziz for a year at Reed Business Information and found him to be an inspirational and focussed product manager. During the interview I review Aziz’s: academic and professional background before becoming a Product Manager; his experiences at Last Minute.com; the strategic element of the job; how best to interact with the customers; the optimum number of products a

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Inertia of Life

SidsAvenue

The subject of this post was bored in my mind in the first session of my MBA program. The speaker, I don't remember the name, was a visiting speaker for IIMs and IISc. She drew the analogy of how business is setup and how it runs with that of the bicycle wheel. I applied it to understand the course of my life and I came to a conclusion that what we do and what we achieve in life is also similar to motion of a wheel.I tattooed it as "Intertia of Life".

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Shortcomings of Google App Engine

Sachin Rekhi

As many of you know, I have been a huge fan of Google App Engine. I love the vision and truly believe its the first real platform-as-a-service as opposed to the other dominant cloud platform Amazon AWS. While AWS has significantly moved the industry forward with on-demand virtualized instances and cloud storage, it has not developed a fully scalable runtime environment comparable to Google App Engine.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Indian Mythology/Rituals and Modern science

SidsAvenue

This post is a result of my recent visit to a near by temple. I was going across all the different temples and the matter of this post flashed in my mind as I crossed the NavGraha(Nine planets) temple. I don't know when was the first planet discovered by the modern science but am sure it the nine planets are being worshiped since the very onset of Indian mythology.