We recently undertook an exercise to analyze the database performance, and subsequently optimize the overall performance for large, data-intensive business application. This post outlines the approach we adopted to analyze the problem, and how we went about arriving at solutions. Continued »
Archive for October, 2009
SAP NetWeaver projects are characterized by a high degree of core development activities, and less of business re-engineering or process re-engineering or SAP systems configuration. Hence, the extent for interaction with the customer’s Business team is much less as compared to a “traditional” SAP development project. Continued »
We recently caught up with Chris Roe, CTO of Qtrax, in New York to find out more about his experience as a Nagarro customer. Qtrax and Nagarro have been working around the clock for months preparing for the launch of Qtrax 1.0, the industry’s first free and legal peer-to-peer music download service. Qtrax had a tall order – linking a massive music file system with ad-serving features while enabling millions of site visitors to rapidly download an unlimited number of high-quality music files.
Oh, and did we mention that they needed it done in just four months? Click on the video to hear how Nagarro rose to the challenge.
I am a big fan of .NET reflection. However most often you will hear more of critics than praise. The biggest of all “It’s slow.” Web is full of cautions and warnings telling you not to use it. Some will go as far as saying that if you care for performance, do not even think about using reflection. If you go on and read beyond the highlight points, you will realize that a large percentage of these warnings and cautions are discussing a particular scenario where some developer failed to get what s/he was trying to achieve. And while being judgmental with the experiment a generalized statement like this comes up as an end result. Continued »
I recently got the opportunity to represent Nagarro at a Microsoft Event, where Scott Guthrie was speaking. Scott runs Microsoft’s Developer Division and is a great visionary and speaker. After the keynote there was a informal session of developers with “The Gu” on what’s coming in .NET. It was amazing to see how Scott went down to lowest level details in explaining everything and anything related to .NET technologies be it on Silverlight 3.0, .NET RIA Services, ASP.NET MVC, IIS 7.0, SEO and so on. Continued »
