Shivji Jha

The Test of My Life by Yuvraj Singh My rating: 4 of 5 stars The book offers a glimpse into the journey of a top class sportsman and the o...

A Century Is Not Enough : My Roller-coaster Ride to Success by Sourav Ganguly My rating: 4 of 5 stars A good read overall (4.5 maybe). ...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai My rating: 4 of 5 stars For a 15 year ...

As developers when we write a piece of code we try our best to make sure we have carefully chosen the best algorithms, the data structures...

A crash, a panic attack and we rush to the logs hoping it comes to rescue. Alas there is so much content in these logs that finding the r...

I Too Had a Dream by Verghese Kurien My rating: 5 of 5 stars With autobiographies I sometimes don't understand how deeply you trust...

MobileSpark is a two day conference and MobileSpark 2015 happened last Friday and Saturday (August 6 and 7, 2015). I attended the complete...

The Accidental Prime Minister : The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru My rating: 5 of 5 stars The review for this b...

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book is good in patches. To start...

In the previous post in this series , we talked of the of native database usage versus Amazon RDS . We established some reasons as to why y...

Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry by Michael Dell My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is an excellent book and I wo...

In the last post we went through the overall impressions from the conference. Here is a summary of the first session of the day  Startup L...

NextBigWhat is a meetup to gather together geeks, entrepreneurs (aspiring ones too!), angels and investors.  I am pretty sure that's n...

Coming from three years of experience working as a developer on MySQL , I always felt Amazon RDS  (Relational Database System) was just sna...