It’s been another enjoyable month of blogging. I am now hooked. I am really happy that the comments are growing - there were 53 comments in January compared to 25 in December. I don’t know what to make of it but the rest of the traffic doubled too. There were 13,190 visitors in January compared to 6,684 in December!
Below you will find the most popular posts of January. Check them out if you missed any…
The New Data Center Leading-Edge
The leading-edge of innovation in the data center is now firmly in the consumer space with eBay, Google and Amazon leading the charge. Ten years back the focus was on tuning the applications to get the best performance. Now the focus is on tuning the infrastructure to get the best performance. Commodity building-locks and custom-software to tie it all together is the new norm in data center infrastructure. This rise of adaptable infrastructure is creating a new “lean” data center model which will produce its own hot startups and segments.
How Cognizant Broke Out of the Pack
Francisco D’Souza has taken over as Cognizant’s CEO from Lakshmi Narayanan. By itself this isn’t special as this transition was announced a few months back. Yet the fact is, Cognizant is one of the few mid-sized firms that has broken out of the pack in the competitive IT services space in India. I believe that their organizational model has given them the edge…
A Whole New Software Engineer
A recent blog comment about how “a programmer’s way of thinking is highly structured, logical and methodical” reminded me of a book that I read recently, Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind”. The author argues that the era of lawyers, accountants and software engineers is coming to an end. These professions won’t go away but will lose some of their sheen. He believes that we are in the midst of a transition from the Information Age to the “Conceptual Age”. How would the software engineers fare in this emerging world?
This R&D Boom Now Needs a (Temporary) Bust
R&D offshoring to India is booming. This is creating many bubble effects. Is a bust round the corner?
Why Many Programmers Fall in Love with Blogging?
Building software is not all fun. Some parts of it involve considerable tedium. The best parts are the idea stage and the coding stage. In one sense, Agile Programming (AP) reinvents the process around these fun parts. I have concluded that writing an essay-type blog (like mine) is the AP version of writing a book. You just focus most on the idea and the writing and can ignore the scaffolding that you need for a book. In fact, this parallel between software development and blogging goes deeper. Writing is like coding only more difficult but equally fun.
Sharad,
It would be fun to know the profile of your visitors(atleast the regular ones).
What could be the split between
>> core techies
>> Sr.Business execs
>> Entrepreneurs
>> Wannabe Entrepreneurs
>> Students
>> non-software folks
Thanks,
Arun.PC
The numbers that I shared are from the (BAStats) widget that counts the visitors and page views to the blog. I can get information about refering pages, the type of browser used, searches done, etc. but nothing that’s really useful. Since its just a web visit to the blog, there is no demographics information that comes through.
In addition to direct visitors, some consume the blog using news readers. Since I don’t use Feedrunner I have no idea about the number of feed subscribers. So this number gets undercounted.
Finally the last method to consume the content on the blog is through email subscription. I have just over 50 email subscribers right now.
The bottom-line is that I know my readers only through comments. That’s why comments are so important!
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