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Practical lessons from managing distributed teams across India and the US at Spektra Systems - the 2-hour overlap window, async communication, handoffs, hiring, and cultural gaps.
Why cloud marketplace integration is harder than ISVs expect, and how SaaSify handles the plumbing so engineering teams can focus on their actual product.
A practical guide to getting started with GitHub Copilot - setup, first impressions, where it shines, where it falls short, and tips to get real value from it.
Hello there, The first thing I do when setting up any device is “Enabling Dark Mode”. It’s not just a cool aesthetic switch; it also has a few benefits I’m sure you’ll appreciate. While setting up my new Macbook, i thought to figure out how to do these things quickly, rather than regular long path of navigating through screens. In…
Microsoft Teams is all great, but when it comes to using it with multiple accounts it’s a nightmare. I have various work accounts that I need to access all the time, parallelly and Teams wouldn’t let me do that without switching the tenant. Another option is to use Teams in Web browser, which is a very sub-par experience comparatively to…
AzConf 2020 is here and I’m super excited for one of the top Azure community conference in India. Azure Community Conference will be a 3 day multi-track virtual conference between 24-26 November 2020. The conference is aimed at Cloud and Web Developers working with open source and cloud native technologies on the Microsoft Stack. I’ve more than one reason to…
I had an amazing time earlier this month attending Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. It was a power-packed week with a lot of learning and networking. I’m still trying to catch with all the announcements that came during the week. On the 8th of November, the last day of Ignite I participated in doing podcasts with Dave Rendon., Here are…
With everything going around the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, conducting workshops isn’t the same anymore. I’ve had many in-person workshops scheduled around the Late March and April period which ended up getting rescheduled or were converted to virtual ones. In this post, I’ll talk about some of the best practices to follow when conducting a virtual workshop. While…
It’s been less than a month since the first-ever virtual Microsoft Build conference concluded. Tons of exciting announcements, new features, and much more. In this webinar, I sat down with Azure community members from Bangalore and discussed about all the great things announced at Build 2020. I focussed on developer technologies primarily. Here is the recording of the webinar, Check…