My Book Wishlist
A collection of must read books on computer science, technology, entrepreneurship, business, product design & strategy. My wishlist from flipkart: http://www.flipkart.com/wishlist/prashantp [Read more]
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Job’s Stanford Speech [Read more]
Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs & Technology Startups
Here is a list of must-read books for Technology startups and entrepreneurs (Not in any particular order). [Read more]
Reference resources on NoSQL DB
NoSQL Databases and Comparisons Resources [Read more]
Amazon’s Hidden Empire
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire </p> View more presentations from faberNovel </p> [Read more]
Photo Galleries – Picasa, Flickr, Facebook… yet a lot of vacuum
There are lot of Photo Gallery services available but all of them have something missing – a big feature or important frills . Already coming from a Yahoo Photos heartbreak, I decided to do some research on features provided by these gal... [Read more]
failure
10 Things I Learned from Failure http://bit.ly/lk1TdF [Read more]
Drafts, Drafts & Drafts…
Number of posts in my drafts section is at all time high! Need to finish off some quickly… [Read more]
Freakonomics » The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/28/the-100-rules-for-being-an-entrepreneur/ [Read more]
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php [Read more]
prashantparashar.com Appearance Improvements
I added few small appearance improvements to prashantparashar.com , hope people out there like it! Feedback is always most welcome! [Read more]
Netflix Cloud Architecture
Here is an extremely useful presentation by Netflix on Netflix’ cloud architecture and why & how they moved to Cloud. [Read more]
Scalability Thumb Rules for Programmers (2011)
Avoid Synchronization. Keep it short. Use lock-free data structures and those in java.util.concurrent.atomic Use Non-Blocking I/O java.nio package for high-scalability. Use only for very high throughput applications. Single thre... [Read more]
List of Useful Load Test Tools for Web Applications/Websites
Here is a list of some useful Load Testing tools for websites. I tried to keep the list limited to non-commercial/community-driven tools, however some commercial ones might have sneaked through. [Read more]
Of Poonam Pandey, Dhoni and Anna Hazare …
In our cricket crazy country, craziest of the things happen. When the cricket is at its peek, some non-cricketing celebrity (read Poonam Pandey) becomes the talk of the nation and is on Internet everywhere. Don’t know if those searching ... [Read more]
9 Features I am looking for in a Bookmarking website
Since biggies (Yahoo! Google) of the world keep shutting shops on their not-so-profitable businesses, users are left with no option but to move around or really keep moving from one service to another. Remember when Yahoo Photos closed i... [Read more]