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• Office design for Efficient Software Development — This article contains resources that cover pros and cons of cubicles, private offices, dining table style offices, war rooms etc
• Data Structures and Search Algorithms

• How to Run an Open Source Project — I aimed to give information for anyone to start their own projects. Current Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project leaders can pick up some tips from my experience with Pandion.
• Async IO and Multithreading — This is a presentation I delivered at the BarCamp Mumbai. It explains multi threading, blocking IO, NIO and Async IO.
• Building a Scalable Architecture for Web Apps - Part I — This is a presentation I delivered at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008. It covers a wide-array of topics and a plethora of lessons we have learnt (some the hard way) over the last 9 years in building web apps that are used by millions of users serving billions of page views every month. Topics and Techniques include Vertical scaling, Horizontal Scaling, Vertical Partitioning, Horizontal Partitioning, Loose Coupling, Caching, Clustering, Reverse Proxying and more.
• Our Journey Down the Yellow Brick Road (Agile Adoption at Directi) — A presentation on agile development practices that we have adopted at Directi, our lessons, experiences and observations - as delivered at Web Innovation 2008 by Bhavin Turakhia and Naresh Jain.
• Demystifying Storage - Building Large SANs — This is a fairly detailed presentation I made at BarCamp Mumbai on building large storage networks and different SAN topologies. It covers fundamentals of selecting harddrives, RAID levels and performance of various storage architectures. This is Part I of a 3-part series.
• Automated Testing vs Manual Testing — This is a 24 slide internal presentation covering virtues of Automated Testing vs Manual Testing. Inkeeping with our agile adoption this presentation covers various advantages (11 to be specific) obtained in using TDD and Automated Testing as opposed to Manual Testing

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