DevOps
17 articlesFastly’s Altitude Summit
Rajiv spoke at Fastly's Altitude 2016 Summit in San Francisco. #Altitude2016 was a full day conference featuring technical content and idea sharing about t...
Ken Fisher, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Ars Technica
Ken Fisher shared this recommendation for Rajiv on February 18, 2013 via LinkedIn: Rajiv had the difficult task of managing and upgrading many disparate sy...
Four Years at Condé Nast and Reddit: Building Digital Products for Iconic Brands
Reflections on four years at Condé Nast, leading digital technology for Wired, Vogue, The New Yorker, Reddit, and dozens of other properties.
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...
Benefits of Using IRC or Group Chat & Video Conference During Incident Management
When a team of engineers is dealing with a real-time incident, such as a system outage, troubleshooting a problem or dealing with a malicious hacking attac...
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...
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...
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...
I now use a device called Drobo for storing data at my home network (Product Review)
I now use a device called Drobo (2nd generation), manufactured by Data Robotics, Inc. as the primary data storage and backup medium at my home location. I ...
Opinion on the Amazon S3 Outage; Checklist for Dealing with Outages
My journalist colleagues at Wired.com published some of my comments related to Amazon S3. ((Silicon Alley Insider and ValleyWag have amusing spins on it. 🙂...
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...
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...