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35 articlesFrom Tool to Team: Managing AI as Distributed Engineering
When you're running multiple AI sessions in parallel, you're not using a tool anymore — you're managing a team. The skills that matter shift accordingly.
Synthesis Project Management
Project management redesigned for AI capabilities. A craft that complements traditional PM tools by creating documentation AI can query, synthesize, and act on.
What is Synthesis Engineering?
Synthesis engineering is a professional discipline for human-AI collaboration on complex work. Not just better prompting — a systematic approach with princ...
The Power of Being Present: Why Working 24/7 Reduces Your Productivity & Innovation
As a longtime CTO and Chief Product Officer, I've seen firsthand the toll that constant work can take on individuals and teams. Many of us in the tech indu...
Digital Diversity Network Cloud Gathering Conference
Hosted at the New York Times Conference center, Rajiv spoke to making diversity a mission to be embraced by everyone from CEO to the mail person at the 2nd...
SHA-3 Hash Generator
http://crypto-js.googlecode.com/svn/tags/3.1.2/build/rollups/sha3.js SHA-3, originally known as Keccak is a cryptographic hash function. Learn more on Wiki...
QCon New York
At QCon New York, Rajiv was a keynote speaker along with Marc Frons and spoke about Technology Innovation at The New York Times. Photos from the event on Fli...
Proposal for Linking To Users Across Social Networks @username@service
We present here a convention for linking to users across social networks. Social networks have evolved into a category of their own. They are not like most...
Online Publishers Association (OPA) Technology Conference
At the Online Publishers Association (OPA) technology conference, co-presented HTML5 with the CTO of New York Times Digital (March 23, 2011). As a regular ...
Akamai and Brightcove Online Video Technology and Strategy Seminar
Rajiv spoke about online video technology and strategy at a seminar and networking event in New York City hosted by Akamai and Brightcove. Other presenters...
Mark Cox, Head of Technology Operations at COXnet
Mark Cox shared this recommendation for Rajiv on May 4, 2010 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is a passionate and driven leader. He thinks on a very large scale and cha...
Hosting Large-Scale Web Sites: Contract Review Guide for the CTO
Introduction: Why Web Hosting Contracts Matter In today's digital economy, your website isn't just a marketing channel—it's the backbone of your business. ...
Understanding SLA Uptime Percentages: What They Really Mean for Your Business
Introduction: Why SLA Uptime Matters When negotiating hosting contracts for large-scale websites, few metrics are as critical yet as widely misunderstood a...
Bavarian International School in Germany
Rajiv gave a lecture on Cloud Computing & Social Networks at the Bavarian International School in Germany. (February 5, 2010)
Checklist for Migration of Web Application from Traditional Hosting to Cloud
In 2010, Cloud Computing is likely to see increasing adoption. Migrating Web applications from one data center to another is a complex project. To assist y...
Amazon.com’s AWS Event
Rajiv gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at Amazon.com's AWS Event in NYC. Other presenters included Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. (October 19, 2...
Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication
Rajiv spoke at the seminar titled Video Technology: Eye on the Future hosted by The Center for Communication (cencom.org). The Center for Communication is ...
Save Money On Hosting & CDN By Optimizing Your Architecture & Applications
If you manage technology for a company that has a large Web presence, it is likely that a large percentage of your total technology costs is spent on the W...
Save Your Company Money In Monthly Bills Using Browser Caching
Companies that operate heavily trafficked Web sites can save thousands of dollars every month by maximizing their use of browser-side caching. Large Web si...
Nathan Tableman, Senior Manager of Web Hosting and Infrastructure, Conde Nast Digital
Nathan Tableman shared this recommendation for Rajiv on July 22, 2009 via LinkedIn: Rajiv's deep understanding of technology combined with his leadership a...
Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance
One of the differences between Amazon EC2 server instances and normal servers is that the server's local disk storage state (i.e. changes to data) on EC2 i...
Organizing a Digital Technology Department of Medium Size in a Media Company
There are many good ways to organize your technology department. This article presents some of them. It is written for a CTO or VP Technology leading a med...
American City Business Journals’ Digital Fast Forward Conference
At the American City Business Journals' Digital Fast Forward conference in Charlotte, Rajiv spoke about digital technology & organization in media & publis...
This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3
This web site, http://www.rajiv.com is now hosted on Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) services. They are part of Am...
Donate to a good cause and get a useful laptop computer
The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-ag...
The Evolution of Web Sites
Over the past 15 years, as the Web has evolved, the web sites have gone through these generations. What's likely to be next in the future of what the Web w...
Integrating Legacy Technologies With Web Systems at Newspapers
The topic of integrating print technology systems with web technology systems often comes up in the newspaper, magazine and book publishing industries. The...
Web site hosting provider and technologies change
http://www.rajiv.com now has a new hosting provider: Kattare Internet Services. The web site is now powered by Java and related technologies. My previous I...
Technology, Innovation and Business Decisions
Nowadays, it is becoming fashionable to belittle technology. I hear people say things like "technologies should not drive business decisions", "define ...
Suggestions to Nikon for future DSLR cameras
[amazon-product align="right"]B001ENOZY4[/amazon-product]At present, Canon is dominating the digital SLR-type (DSLR) camera market. We need strong compet...
On content sites requiring user registration
I wish I didn't have to register at and maintain my profile for each web site that I use that requires me to log in. A shared (not necessarily centralized)...
Preserving URLs of Evergreen Content
Changing the URLs of pages containing narrative content like articles has several disadvantages, especially for a content site: The idea of permanent links...
Other Web Search Engines
Can't find what you are looking for using Google? There are other search engines too. For specific searches, some of these may have their own unique advant...
Ads by Google on some of my pages
I signed up with Google Adsense to put relevant ads on some of my pages, mainly the Humor and India pages. If you'd like your ads to appear on rajiv.com, ple...
Can you hear me now? Good
November 24th was the day I got the freedom to switch my phone service from AT&T Wireless back to Verizon Wireless and this time without changing my number...