opinion
28 pieces on opinion, across articles, books, talks, and videos.
I moved two decades of writing off WordPress and into plain markdown on GitHub, rendered as a static site. The design goal was simple: agents will read this content as often as humans do. Here is how I designed it — and what the migration taught me about technical debt.
As we enter 2025, technological advancements are set to reshape industries, enhance daily life, and create new ethical considerations. These trends reflect a collective drive for smarter, more efficient, and responsible solutions. Here are my Top 10 Tech Trends that will define…
As we approach 2024, the cloud computing landscape is on the cusp of significant changes. In this article, I explore my predictions for the future of cloud computing, highlighting the integration of Generative AI Fabric, its application in enterprises, the advent of quantum…
What is Similarity Syndrome? Similarity Syndrome is a perception that might be created by large language models like ChatGPT, where any unique work would be ultimately treated as common knowledge or work similarly to others. For instance, - You write a unique quote for your…
ChatGPT seems good at converting facts to fiction. I asked ChatGPT about myself; around 70% of the information is cooked up (see image below). On a lighter note, maybe it's predicting the future, which I am unaware of : ). But what about past details? I need a time machine to go…
The release of ChatGPT and the responses it provided brought back the Conversation AI to the forefront and made Conversation AI available to everyone through a simple web interface. We saw many creative ways to use ChatGPT and how it might impact the future and questions around…
Green Software is all about designing, developing and deploying software applications which emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions. For those you missed attending the Green Software Foundation Summit, the recording is now available. I talked about the intersection of sustainability…
Cloud computing kept the business and remote workforces connected during the coronavirus pandemic. As we move into 2022 and beyond, every organization would eventually adopt cloud models and existing cloud businesses would look at ways to streamline their processes for rapid…
The global industrial IoT market is expected to reach $263.4 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 16.7% during the forecast period of 2019 to 2027. This market is majorly driven by the factors such as extensive government support in encouraging digitalisation across the…
Lot of my youtube viewers and readers wanted to know about Google Cloud Fellow certification. Google Cloud Certification in my view is one of the unique certification programme that evaluates people on technology, leadership and business acumen. In order to answer questions on…
Do you think AI is changing your thinking ability? From applications recommending what movies to watch, what songs to listen, what to buy, what to eat, what ads you see, and the list goes on… all are driven by applications learning from you or delivering information through…
In this blog I would talk about how to get started with Google Cloud Certified Fellow: Hybrid Multi-cloud certification program and my experience of being a Certified Fellow. The official resource for the certification is -…
Listen my Podcast on the subject of IoT, Digital Transformation, AI, Multi-Cloud and the road ahead. Link to Podcast –…
I'm honoured to announce I am now a Google Cloud Certified Fellow This certification experience was very special and rewarding as it not only evaluates you on hands-on skills but also on leadership, business impact and technical acumen. The interview challenges your skills sets…
At the AWS Migration event, I would be talking about our findings and best practices on how to migrate workloads to AWS. To register, kindly visit - https://migratingtoaws-startups-sept.splashthat.com/ Here are some of the topics that I would cover - Migration Plan - Organising…
"AI chatbots give a perception of being intelligent, but intelligence is a long way away, says Navveen Balani." Read my article on why first generation of chatbots did not live up to the hype. The article was featured in August edition of…
The combinatorial power of technologies like AI, IoT, Cloud and Blockchain will lead the next wave of industrial automation. Read my interview/views with Industrial Automation magazine on how emerging technologies will lead the…
I am happy to share that our deep learning image recognition platform - Internet of Birds that I developed from grounds up, its nominated for Best Mobile Innovation for Educationin Global Mobile awards 2018 . The details are available at…
I am happy to share my book on -"Enterprise IoT - A Definitive handbook" has been acknowledged as one of the Top computing book for 2016 by computingreviews.com (by ACM). Here is the link for more details -…
"IoT is the senses,data is the fuel, and artificial Intelligence is the brain to realize the future of a smart connected world." Here is a short view on "BigData and IoT" 23843302 - market share loss as an information pie chart made with gears and cogs losing cog and gear wheels…
I was one of the panelist for the Topic - IoT at the Edge - Sensor and technologies at IoT Expo Conference img0256I talked about how to apply artificial intelligence technologies like machine learning and deep learning on the edge, cloud and…
Building Intelligent Connected Products using Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Blockchain My technical talk at IoTNext, where I talked about applying intelligence at the edge gateway and cloud. Topics covered - Deep Learning, Computer Vision at the Edge Gateway for…
Here is the link to my published articles on IBM Developer works. My first article was published in 2001 and the topic was on Web Services Architecture. References - 1. IBM Developer Works article ( Some of the references are not linked as IBM developerWorks moved over to a new…
This includes definitions, random quotes and answers. - Internet of Things - "Internet of Things is a vision where every object in the world has the potential to connect to the Internet and provide their data so as to derive actionable insights on its own or through other…
I recently read an interesting post on TSS- “Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over”. I am sure, everyone would have its perspective on the above blog and here are my views on this. But before that, let’s step back and look and why frameworks like Spring…
IBM recently announced that it would be joining the OpenJDK effort with Oracle. As per the press release "Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment." This is good for the community as well as both of…
From the archives: a 2010 interview with IBM developerWorks as a Master Author — on the early career journey, the projects that shaped it, the "just go for it" writing philosophy, and what makes a good technical author.
As part of IBM one day campus event, I presented to the IIT Mumbai faculty and students on "Building composite business services". I talked about how businesses can adopt business process modelling and build process models for automating their processes. I talked about the…