A year on my own…

Today I completed one year of being on my own. In 2004, after graduating from college and doing brief experiment with a startup I came to Pune, looking for a job. I failed clearing the interviews of many MNCs. In the last two and a half years of my college I spent most of my … Read more

Docker Mentor Week 2016 – Bangalore

Docker organised Global Mentor Week around the world between 14-19th Nov’16. In Bangalore we scheduled it on 19th Nov at Microsoft office. We divided the group into two groups Beginner and Intermediate of 125 each. Out of which ~60 turned up for each session. The content for the mentor week was shared by the Docker, which … Read more

LinuxCon ContainerCon 2016 – Berlin Germany

LinuxCon, ContainerCon 2016 in Berlin was very special for me, as this is the first time I represented my company CloudYuga as a speaker in an international conference. The event was scheduled between 4th to 7th Oct.’16 . Got my #linuxcon #containercon 2016 #speaker batch. @cloudyuga #berlin pic.twitter.com/sxXmNn92XO — Neependra Khare (@neependra) October 3, 2016 … Read more

3rd Docker Birthday Celebration

Bangalore Docker Community celebrated Docker’s 3rd Birthday on 26th March’16 at Huawei’s Bangalore office. Suraj has written a  great report about the event. So I would cover some other points. More than 400 RSVPed for the event, so we had to divide the group in two batches and we were expecting ~100 in each. Due … Read more

Second Paid Containers Workshop and Free Workshop in Kolkata

I did my second paid workshop in Bangalore on 12th and 13th March.  I had the similar count of participation as last time. Most of participants had some prior experience with Linux so it was much easy and I was well prepared as well. So things went more smooth than last time. One of the participant from the … Read more

DevConf 2016, Brno, CZ

DevConf’16, which happened between 5th to 7th Frb’16 at Brno, CZ; was my first conference after leaving Red Hat. My workshop on Comparing Docker Orchestration Tools got selected, so I decided to go. Though I got the accommodation but I had to pay my own air fare. Devconf is one of the conference which has very … Read more

Free Containers (Docker) Workshop – Hyderabad

After doing free containers (Docker) workshop in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai; the next stop was Hyderabad which was scheduled on 13th Feb’16. Getting the audience and community space at Hyderabad was not as simple as other places because I have never worked there and did not have much community connections. When I scheduled it I … Read more

Report from Containers (Docker) Workshop – Chennai

After doing free workshop in Bangalore and Pune, next stop of free workshop was in Chennai which I delivered on 9th Jan’16. I got few registrations for Chennai last month but after announcing it on Chennai Linux User group, I got more registrations. I was looking for a community space to host the workshop as it was free one. … Read more