Kanchana's Personal Blog

Over the long weekend in Melbourne, Australia I had the opportunity to read The San Francisco Fallacy by Jonathan Siegel.  It was a great book to read, I am glad that I had the opportunity and time to read it. The key reason I liked the book is that while the author Johnathan gave the titled San Francisco Fallacy, the fallacies applied in almost any startup in any city no matter where you are.  He touches on the ten (10) most commonly found fallacies in Startup culture and clearly articulate why they are a fallacy with some of his own experience. I have applied some of his finding in my own experience and he is spot on, highly accurate like he had spoken to me about it. This will be one of the books that I will read at least twice a year to remind myself about the fallacies we all fall in without thinking too much. Highly recommend anyone involved in Startup, especially if you are a founder or co-founder to read this book. I am sure you will find it highly va...

Recently started listening to GCP Podcasts by  Mark  and  Francesc . Doing a great job keeping us informed with GCP services plus great interviews with some of the Google and non Google engineers, developers etc. Great Podcasts and happy to recommend.

It is nearly two years since I started writing about Docker, CoreOS (product CoreOS is now known as Container Linux) and Kubernetes. Wow, what I can say things have gone crazy mad. Both Docker and CoreOS having securing funding last year have made major inroads in to communities and enterprises around the world.  That said Kubernetes is one that is not a company has had the most attention in the last twelve months.  For obvious reasons Google was the first to put their public cloud support for Kubernetes, followed by Microsoft Azure and now I am hearing AWS is planning to do similar level of support (although nothing official from AWS yet). Hopefully something might come out of them as well. While both Docker and CoreOS are growing their business and keep contributing to the community some of the key achievements in the last 12 months were the announcements of donating runC, containerD, rkt etc to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https:...

What is Crowfunding? I am not going to bore you with detailed definition around Crowdfunding given it is no longer a buzzword. However given some of the readers may be new to crowdfunding, let me to try to explain in a simple way. "Crowdfunding : is where you are asking general public to trust and fund a project or a venture you are working on. In return you may reward them with your product/s, service/s, equity or add them to hall of fame in honour of their contribution"  What forms of Crowdfunding is available in Australia? While Australian government is working on bringing equity based crowdfunding to the general public, in Australia we have access to donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding. These platforms ranges from US based Kickstarter, Indiegogo, New Zealand based Equitise, Pledgeme, Snowballeffect to local Pozible, OzCrowd, V enturecrowd, M ycause etc.   Donation-based crowdfunding offers general public to donate funds to a good cause...

About  few weeks back I started listening to AWS Tech Chat by Dr. Pete Stanski and Russell Nash on SoundCloud. They are solutions architects of AWS from Australia. Since started listening to their podcats I can now ignore the emails from AWS about their product launch notifications. They cover a most of these latest product updates and deep technical insights into AWS products and services. It is less marketing more technical (otherwise I wouldn't have listened to it). So far they are doing a great job, and if you haven't listened to it before I strongly suggest you give it a go and I am sure you will like it. You might also be able to crack some of the wording Dr. Pete use for URL (urrl) and AMI (amy). It is fun and interesting. I guess my question to Dr. Pete and Russ is when are you gents going to cover AWS Kubernetes offering? given Google and Microsoft are talking a lot about it these days (surprising to without annoying me).  

Google Cloud makes Container Builder in General Availability. With Google Cloud Container Builder: You willl get 120 free build mins each day (extra minutes at US$0.0034 at the time of writing) Build with any language and packed in to Docker containers Automate with CI/CD via API Deploy your container to App Engine, Container OR Compute Engines Pull base images from DockerHub, other public repos or your own Google Cloud Registry Build from Google Source repo or GitHub, BitBucket via RepoSync Tag and automate trigger to make a build via Google Source repo, GitHub or BitBucket This gives you the opportunity to stop worrying about having to maintain build servers, manage and monitor them. 

Since Google released Kubernetes back in June 2014 (ref: Wikipedia ) there was no sign of slowdown. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon to provide some level of Kubernetes offering, from obvious player GCP (Google Cloud Platform), to notable Cloud providers such as Azure (Microsoft), AWS (Amazon Web Services by Amazon). Is this a good thing? Yes of course this is a good thing for individual developers to teams of developers in startups and enterprises this is a good thing.  Other than the three big Cloud players, there are many others  (e.g: EngineYard with Deis , Heptio  with $8.5m in funding, Apcera,  Apprenda  just to name a few)  contributing in many ways to improve and make Kubernetes simple and easy to use and that is a great thing. Linux Foundation has created a training course for Kubernetes fundamentals and there are many meetups around the Globe with more and more resources becoming available to us. In Melbourne Australia we have ...