The term Big Data is in the verge of becoming a household term. Have you ever wondered why there is so much movement around that phrase? Let me give you my view on this. Information systems are about data collection, processing, storing, retrieving and deleting. Between a decade ago and now there isn’t any change in… Continue reading
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What you didn’t know about Real-time notification systems
I have been intrigued by Event Notification systems for a long time now, In fact this started from my programming days in legacy environments like iSeries. So I started working on a toy project which evolved into a solid project. I thought I will muse about that recent project the RealTimeNotification. But before going into the details of the… Continue reading
REST over MQTT for Constrained Devices/Mobiles
MQTT the IoT Buzzword If you run your fingers across google you will find some really good articles about MQTT. Yet, here is a blog post to all the handy links about MQTT. In fact I covered MQTT a great deal in my previous post in the Pub/Sub context. So basically I am assuming some MQTT background… Continue reading
How MQTT will revive EAI for IoT
EAI This might be very familiar topic to some and but to set the context I would like to start saying few words about it. Every enterprise has an array applications and systems to handle their business needs. These Systems could include a CRM, ERP, Customer facing portal and one or more legacy applications ;-). Traditionally… Continue reading
Why Facebook thinks MQTT is cool ?
Although the GCM framework for Android and the APN(Apple push notification) for iOS seems like a perfect solution for cases like real time messaging, why did FB decided to go with MQTT? is this a lingering question in your mind ? Here are some of my thoughts. 1. MQTT will help position FB and Messenger to… Continue reading
API Discovery and Documentation
Curse of REST style APIs – Documentation Making APIs accessible or discoverable are becoming overloaded terms and means different things to different people. 2 different perspectives The companies which are trying to monetize their APIs may want make it more easy to understand. They want the users to know how to use the API and may be to try… Continue reading
Citi Mobile Challenge – Round 2
The results after the 2nd round of shortlisting just came out and unfortunately I didn’t make it through this round. But as promised the idea was put together will be shared. Here is the presentation. Below is the one page info graphic of the idea.
Citi Mobile and IoT Challenge US 2014
This is the actual vision of the challenge as quoted by Citi. “The Citi Mobile Challenge U.S. is a virtual competition hosted by Citi that is designed to accelerate digital banking innovation by bringing together the most talented and creative developers and designers in the world to create cutting-edge applications for Citi’s Digital Banking Platforms” This… Continue reading
Big Data whereabouts
I have met quite a few people who were asking, “Who is really dealing with Big Data – in the said volume or variety or velocity”. It’s a great question. So this is how I would like to take the conversation forward with them. So are you apprehensive about the research results like “the amount of… Continue reading
Mobile and Cloud Data Synchronisation
Refer to this slide share presentation