Welcome to my world of blogs…
Though it is quite a small one, hope to make it bigger with your valuable feedback and support.
Blogging is something I had longed to do, I wish this would help me stay connected to the tech world and share my thoughts…
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What if the God has a line manager and yearly appraisals ?
We all know the ritual. You grind for 365 days, log every tiny win on your self-assessment, and try to convince your boss that you single-handedly saved the company. Why do we put ourselves through this stress? Simple: hard work pays for the lifestyle, dinner table upgrades, and overall well-being of our loved ones. Whether… Read more
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How I Mercilessly Laid Off My Favorite Proofreader (Sorry, Honey!)
For years, I had a very specific, high-stakes ritual every time I finished writing a blog post about Azure. But I was bit lazy to do proof reading few times to correct it and make a good flow. So, like any loving husband, I did what felt natural: I handed it over to my wife.… Read more
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The Art of Scanning: What Xavi Hernández Taught Me About Technical Success
Xavi Hernández… I am sure it is a familiar name to anyone who loves football. He was part of the iconic Spain team that won the World Cup back in 2010—the very same year I got married. Throughout his career, Xavi played as a central midfielder. He wasn’t particularly fast, nor was he a flashy… Read more
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Leading the Landscape, Not Just the Metrics
In management theory, there is a long-standing ideal: the leader as a perfectly balanced scale. Objective, unwavering, and strictly impartial. For years, standard workplace philosophy has held that fairness is simple math. If a leader gives one team member an hour of guidance, everyone should get an hour. If a performance standard is set, that… Read more
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Converting Half Chances into Match-Winning Results – with a transformation mindset
I grew up watching Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, and Robin Singh field for the Indian team. They were the ones who completely changed the way Indian fielders moved on the ground. It was truly the start of a new fielding era for us. However, if we look at who changed the perception of fielding on… Read more
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From Rivers to Repositories: “Shifting Left” is Simplified Once upon a time, a thriving town was built along the banks of a Great River. For generations, the town flourished, but as the population exploded, clean water became scarce. To keep the town running, the Mayor decided it was finally time to tap into the river’s… Read more
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PackLogic – Why I like Wolves
Did you know that a tiger—one of the most powerful predators on earth—only succeeds in about 10% of its hunts? That means for every ten times it tries to eat, it fails eight or nine times. Now, look at wolves. Their hunting success rate is around 25%. But if you look at the African Wild… Read more
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The Pressure Cooker Whistle: Explaining My New Job
I am writing this from thousands of feet above, on my way to Seattle for Confluent’s Global Kick Off 2026. It’s been three months since I joined. Looking back, leaving my previous role wasn’t easy. I was comfortable. I knew Azure like the back of my hand. Moving here meant leaving that safety net for… Read more
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How the Right Stakeholders Earn Customer Confidence – A Real Wedding Story
When it comes to customer service, one principle often overlooked is the power of involving the right stakeholders at the right time. Let me explain how we handled this while planning my cousin’s wedding. The Challenge: Quality on a Limited Budget We had a clear goal – to organize a beautiful wedding within a limited… Read more
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Delegate and Empower – Are they different?
Empowerment takes delegation to the next level to achieve greater results. Leaders need to take greater care to achieve expected results
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Why should your team feel secured in the organization?
I recently read about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and what struck me was the importance of safety. In any organization, having a healthy working environment is crucial. Think about this: Can you come up with innovative ideas if you’re stuck Infront of a wild elephant? Of course not. You need a calm mind to think… Read more
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Why Should We Build an Ideation Engine in Our Organization
I’ve always been fascinated by ideas. The kind of ideas that spark innovation, creativity, and problem-solving. The kind of ideas that make you want to jump out of bed and start working on them right away. That’s why I was drawn to the famous tagline from Idea Cellular company: “An idea can change your life”… Read more
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Optimizing Design and Deployment Process with AI Guidance
We frequently ask questions to gather requirements and provide our designs and solutions. Many organizations standardize their questions for consistency among teams. Can chatbots handle these questions? Yes, AI services can be utilized to make decisions and trigger DevOps pipelines to deploy the desired design or service. By using Infrastructure as Code (IAC), we can… Read more
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Design By Crowd
Traditionally, Architects work on the end-to-end design and get it reviewed by different stakeholders at the end. You end up waiting several days to get this reviewed by many people in your organization and your customers’ organization. It is clearly a serial activity and waterfall model. In the era of the Public Cloud and agile… Read more
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Disaster Recovery – Do you really need one?
Last week, Microsoft announced the Preview of Capacity Reservation for VMs. You can reserve VM capacity in your DR region to ensure that you have VM resources available to create or turn on your protected VMs using ASR. ASR does not guarantee that your VMs can be turned on in your DR region in the… Read more
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Review of Preview – Azure Capacity Reservation
The long waiting feature is now Public Preview. When there is a Azure region disaster recovery, we need our VMs to be turned on in the secondary region. This feature guarantees you the recovery. You may learn about this feature in this URL. As you know already, Azure Site Recovery does not 100% guarantee to… Read more
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Can Public Cloud Turn All Your Protected VMs ON in another Region during the Region Fail-over?
It is an interesting point to discuss. I am taking example of Azure here but it is applicable to other Public Clouds as well. Azure Site Recovery is great native tool which helps us enable disaster recovery (DR) by replicating VMs to another region with few clicks. Microsoft allows you to turn the VM ON… Read more
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CHANGE is the New Standard for the Cloud Adoption
What are the standards we should follow when we move on to Public Cloud? We often get this questions during the Public Cloud conversations with different stakeholders. I would say ‘Change’ should be standard. Ahh…What? Be ready to accept a Change Be ready to execute a Change. Be ready to prepare for future Changes. The… Read more
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What makes you a great presenter ? Confidence
Confidence makes you a good presenter. So, what gets you confidence? It is information, the more you know… the more you build the confidence. Let me write today my story how I developed presentation skills. Now a days I do lot of presentations to clients across the world. It is mostly around technical stuff predominately… Read more
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What is Cloud Speed? How Do We Accelerate?
We often hear “We want to achieve Cloud Speed” when we talk about deployment and management of Public Cloud. What does that mean? A VM can be deployed in few minutes in Public Cloud so the question is “why do you take longer time to start managing that?”. It is an interesting question, isn’t it?… Read more

