Category: Education
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Dilemmas of a Class 10 student (and their parents)
When students choose a stream for Class 11, they usually also commit to one or more professional tracks they will prepare for and get into. Here are a few popular professional tracks: As can be seen, each of these tracks admits about 5-6% of those who appear. Anyone who understands probability and statistics even a…
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Onboarding challenges of novice engineers
Introduction Modern SaaS B2B products are large, distributed, complex systems. They operate at the scale of millions of users and have complex workflows, many personas, and a comprehensive set of configurations that control the workflows. To serve these millions of users, the products must address various architectural concerns like performance, availability, reliability, and security while…
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Software Education in India
As India marches towards becoming a $5T economy, software products and services continue to be critical to this achievement. However, our desire to be a product development and manufacturing nation is predicated on large-scale availability of engineers with strong product skills. These are the graduating students and early career engineers who will fuel the startup…
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Product management education in India
When I talk of Product Management, I am focused on product managers in technology companies, even though product managers are found in all types of non-technology companies. While some of the discussion here applies to them, I do not claim to know enough about those product managers and their education needs. In India, almost every…