Student, Gardener, Self-employed
Last week (5th – 10th Oct’24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. … Read more
From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book … Read more
I attended my first ever Jeevan Vidhya Shivir (Workshop) between 28th August to 4th September at Anahad, Telangana. It was facilitated by Shri Ashok Gopala Ji in English and attended by around 15 people. I decided to join the workshop after looking its details in a WhatsApp Group. It took me just one minute to … Read more
I attended a 5-Days organic farming workshop by Akash Chaurasia at the Sri Paripoorna Sanathana Ayurveda Medical College between 15th-19th Dec’22. It was a complete hands-on workshop on the fields with lots of insights. Some of the important things I learned and observed are:- There were many more learnings but for some other time. For … Read more
I always loved organizing meetups but decided to step down as organizer of the meetup I ran for close to 5 years. That decision was primarily due to time constraints and changing priorities. It was difficult to take time off during weekends and taking care of all the logistics. But I am very happy the … Read more
From now on I would be using this space (neependra.net) for non-tech and personal blogs. All the tech, meetup etc blogs would now go to my company’s blog.
In Bangalore we celebrated Docker’s 4th Birthday at Microsoft Office on 25th March’17. Over 300 participants signed up and around 100 turned up for the event. We had around 15 mentors. We started the event at 9:30 AM. After a quick round to introduction with Mentors, participants started doing the Docker Birthday Labs. Docker community … Read more
If you are following the updates here then you would know that in Feb’17 AWS, DevOp and Docker meetup group of Bangalore did a combined event in the following proposed community driven event format. Instead of INR 200 we charged INR 100 and did not look for sponsors. With all the collected money we gave … Read more
Last weekend we had 4th Kubernetes Meetup in Bangalore at VMware’s office. More than 100 people signed and ~40 people showed up. The first session was from Akshay Mathur and Manu Dilip Shah of A10 Networks who shared their experience on choosing and using Kubernetes for their product. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7V_hElKm5Y [/embedyt] The next session was from Krishna … Read more
Continuing our experiment with community driven conference, this time AWS,DevOps and Docker meetup collaborated to do a combined meetup. We charged INR 100 to each participants to make sure they are really interested in coming. From the collected money we gave gifts to speakers and some prized to the participants. The meetup was hosted at Bangalore’s … Read more