Friends,

                I had a great chat with Kamal Govindraj around Spring. Kamal is a SME in quite a few technologies including Spring. He spoke a bit about many things and we finally ran out of time. In 40 mins or so he did cover history of Spring, Why Spring is so cool, his views on some other web frameworks, Spring sub projects and many more things. 

Folks,

       It was a pleasure talking to Anurag Gupta. We spoke about Software Performance, and Anurag has deep knowledge when it comes to this topic having been there and done it all for Amazon, Intel, Facebook, Yahoo! etc. He also serves on the Eclipse Requirements Council, Eclipse Architecture Council and Technical Advisory Council and has furthermore received Intel Achievement Award, Intel's highest honor, not once,twice but thrice !

cheers !

rohit

Dear Friends,

                      In our last episode we spoke about software performance and this time I thought we would touch base on software performance monitoring. For that, I spoke with Mahesh Somani, who currently works for eBay as distinguished engineer. It is a rather difficult topic to cover and I had fun talking to Mahesh and hope you will enjoy it too. 

cheers !

rohit

Folks,

Shwetank Dixit is passionate about Browsers and no wonder he works for Opera. We spoke about Browser Wars, Browser Olympics, Standards, what it really means to select a browser even if it is just for browsing, developer and their browsers and some more stuff. Check out Shetank's website here from where you can get his twitter, technical blogs, personal blogs links and much more ! He also writes articles for online media and is a public speaker in conferences. 

cheers !

rohit

Friends,

Subu Ramanathan spoke about Mobile Security and it was great! Subu is a security consultant based out of Toronto, Canada and we could have gone forever talking about this interesting topic. Not many show notes here but for two, Subu's profile and his blog. I enjoyed talking to him and I am sure you guys will also benefit from his talk.

His Blog can be found here

cheers !

rohit

Folks,

             I spoke with Alok Mishra about why NoSQL, Where it fits and where it doesn't, CAP theorem and eventual consistency, types of NoSQL, how to choose one of them and much more.

Show Notes -

Note # 1

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Alok's Profile is here 

Note # 2

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CAP Theorem

HP's take on CAP Theorem, a white paper entitled "There is no free lunch with distributed data - ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/storageworks/whitepapers/5983-2544EN.pdf

Note # 3

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Veneet Gupta's Blog on NoSQL is here. Thanks to Alok for pointing this out. I also remember someone from MongoDB team pointing out to this article some time back.

cheers !

Friends,

I had a chat with Prashant Pund and it was a nice intro chat on an influential topic for software engineers - Design Patterns. Though it is hard to do justice to any topic over audio podcasts, Prakash did explain the "why" behind patterns, and it made a lot of sense. He runs his own firm called AgileSoft Methodologies. He did mention a couple of books and websites that could be a very good start to learn patterns.

Note: The audio quality of this podcast is not all that great, but it settles down after a few minutes so please do bear with us.

cheers !

rohit

Friends,

                 Shekhar Gulati is a speaker at conferences, writes for IBM developer network series and is deep into Java, Spring, Spring ROO and many other things. We spoke about Cloud Foundry a rather new exciting offering from VMWare and I enjoyed talking to Shekhar and hope you will like it too. His blog can be found here.

cheers !

rohit

Folks,

              Rakesh Kalra spoke about his start up Think Vidya and the technology behind it , Groovy and Grails. We spoke about numerous things like how difficult it is to learn Groovy if you are from Java background. What is Grails ? Why it makes sense to move towards Groovy and Grails and for whom ? What are the challenges that one might have to face when learning Groovy and Grails and how to overcome those challenges and much more . . . .

cheers !

rohit