People management is always demanding and exhaustive. While challenging, the solutions depend on the type, expertise and seniority of the people you manage. As a manager of a team of solution architects within a large program of over 100 people, I understand the importance of a tailored approach. With approximately 9 architects, each leading aContinue reading “Getting Smart People Own Responsiblity”
Category Archives: Technology Thoughts
Tricky Decision Making for Solution Architects
A unique challenge and exciting factor in the role of Technical (or)Solution architect is your daily decisions that you take. While you might not get to design a rocket to Mars, even a small decision you need to take on your project might make a big difference to a wide variety of people. This includesContinue reading “Tricky Decision Making for Solution Architects”
Success Factors for Performance Testing for Green Field Implementations
Every manager and senior leadership acknowledge the importance of performance testing. However, stakeholders must make many non-technical and strategic decisions, and they should be aware of and prepared to make those decisions. When starting a large green field project, while the leadership and SI vendors prepare the ways of working, aspects like performance testing shouldContinue reading “Success Factors for Performance Testing for Green Field Implementations”
Handling system instability due to HPA
HPA is one of the essential and valuable features of Kubernetes. It is one of the main tenants which ensures the elasticity of the infrastructure and aids in significant cost optimizations. However, for one of our use cases, HPA caused the system’sinnstability ,and we turned it off for the selected services.The same story has beenContinue reading “Handling system instability due to HPA”
Using UPI Outside India – First hand Experience
I have been a early adaptor of various fintech platforms and apps for the sheer simplicity they provide. I used PayTm wallets regularly even before demonetization etc. As a tech enthusiast and a common man, UPI is a big boon. It avoided need to withdraw and use cash and avoids various hassles associated with it.Continue reading “Using UPI Outside India – First hand Experience”
Life with Entry level smartwatches
Smart watches have become one of the popular and must have gadget and accessory. While the famous and premium brands like Garmin, Apple Watch , Galaxy watch provides a lot of convenince, how is the experience with entry level or budget smart watches ( less than 5000 INR or $75). While it is imperative thatContinue reading “Life with Entry level smartwatches”
Digital Adoption – A Non-Stop Journey
Introduction 2022 has been an important year for me. It was during that year, I completed my PGPX course at UCLA. In one of the classes, one of the alumni, who is running a leading packaging and anti-counterfeit solutions company for FMCG gave a talk about digital transformation in his company. I found the talkContinue reading “Digital Adoption – A Non-Stop Journey”
3D printing for IoT prototypes -Best Practices and Thumb rules
Through this article, we would like to cover how we leverage 3D printing for various IoT prototype activities. What are some best practices, pit falls, limitations, etc. Application Areas Below are the following use cases or requirements for which we have leveraged 3D printing for IoT Enclosures for small our home grown, purpose built edgeContinue reading “3D printing for IoT prototypes -Best Practices and Thumb rules”
Part3: Use case on Migrating real time IoT data analytics to Edge
Continuing from Part2 , as mentioned in that post, I will explain a real world use case and how we approached it in this article. As-Is Solution Our platform was an industrial asset condition monitoring system developed using GcP IoT Core and other key GCP products. At the factory level, we had our own proprietary industrial gateways whichContinue reading “Part3: Use case on Migrating real time IoT data analytics to Edge”
Part 2 : Guidelines for Moving Real time data processing from Cloud to Edge
Continuing on Part1 , In this article, I will highlight the strategy, steps to follow, things to consider and possibly the best practices to do before moving the real time data analytics load from Cloud to edge. This is mostly aimed to serve as a guideline in architecture and process drafting while the enterprise is moving towardsContinue reading “Part 2 : Guidelines for Moving Real time data processing from Cloud to Edge”
Life & Thoughts of Hariharan Anantharaman 