Left Red Hat .. Again, to start something on my own

Yesterday (2nd Dec’15) was my last day at Red Hat  (again). I left Red Hat in Dec’08 to join a startup and then joined back on Sept’12 .  This time I worked in the performance engineering team, which does performance evaluation of all the Red Hat products. It was best team I worked so far. I did performance … Read more

Akshar Bharati Library Setup at NIMHANS, Bangalore

On 28th Nov’15, Akshar Bharati helped setting up Library section for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services centre NIMHANS, Bangalore. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services provides day-care to person with psychiatric disabilities  and engage them with some vocational activities like arts, dance, yoga. Reading would be an additional activity. The library was inaugurated by director of NIMHANS Mr. P. Satish Chandra. At Akshar Bharati we generally setup … Read more

Docker Global Hack Day #3, Bangalore Edition

We organized Docker Global Hack Day at Red Hat Office on 19th Sep’15. Though there were lots RSVPs, the turn up for the event was less than expected. We started the day by showing the recording of kick-off event. The teams here worked on four different ideas, out of which two submitted to the Global … Read more

Bangalore Docker Meetup #14

As planned in previous meetup, this time we arranged all the networking related talks. We covered topics from basics to advance. We looked at current state of Docker Networking and how it going to evolve in near future.  The meetup started with Q & A session, in which few participants discussed how they are using … Read more

Bangalore Docker Meetup #13

VMWare hosted 13th Bangalore Docker meetup on July 4th. We covered following topics:- Docker Introduction  –  Prashant Tyagi, Wipro DockerCon Report – Neependra Khare, Red Hat Docker Security – Pravin Goyal, VMware Model Driven SDLC using Docker– Vinothini Raju, Bluemeric “ops management” for containerized apps, comparing tools in Docker ecosystem for it –  Kumar Gaurav, VMware … Read more

9th Bangalore Docker meetup – Session on Kubernetes

After successfully organizing the Docker Global hackthon on 1st Nov’14, we have not thought about the next meetup. Then Vishnu Kanan from Google pinged us saying that he would be visiting Banglaore during last week of Nov and would like to talk about Kubernetes. We had quick discussion among co-organizers and thought it would be … Read more

Project Atomic Test Day- 20th Nov’14

Project Atomic test day for Fedora 21 was scheduled on 20th Nov’14. To be a part of that we organized test day in Red Hat’s Bangalore office.  As far as I know this is the first such activity we did in Fedora Community  from Bangalore. In Pune, India Fedora community organised  FADs on F21 testing and … Read more

8th Bangalore Docker meetup and Global Hackathon#2

On 1st Nov’14, Red Hat offices in Bangalore and Pune hosted Docker meetups and Hackathon. ~40 people attended Bangalore meetup. Before the hackathon we had following presentations :- Docker Global Hackday opening by Avi Cavale, Co-founder and CEO, Shippable. Introduction to Docker – Pranay Pareek, Shippable Introduction to Project Atomic – Neependra Khare, Red Hat. In … Read more

7th Bangalore Docker Meetup

Last Saturday on 20th Sept’14 we had 7th Bangalore Docker meetup at Relevance Lab. The agenda of the meetup was :- 1. Introduction to Docker- Jeeva, IBM 2. Namespaces/CGroups – Madhurranjan Mohaan , Apigee 3. Intorduction to CoreOS – Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Verizon Labs The meetup started with round of introduction from participants and the … Read more