Testing at Compassites: Meghana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZd0xrnVRrE

Meghana G is a Quality Analyst at Compassites. In this video she talks about the testing practices at Compassites and also touches upon the QA Community, Automation Testing and about working on Selenium.

Webinar on 'Continuous Business Value through Agile'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8z0tt4YL-k

Join Tejus Datta as he speaks about how businesses can get real value through Agile. Some of the key takeaways from this talk are as follows.

* 'Rational' Prioritization: How do you get the key stakeholder to prioritize the iteration with the right effort towards stories, CR, tech debt/tasks and bugs.

* Identifying Value: How do you identify 'Business value' visually early enough? We will cover topics such as lo-fi prototyping, hi-fi prototyping etc.

* The new definition of CRUD: 'Collect', 'Re-Use', 'Understand' and then 'Design'

* Stakeholder becomes you: How do you gradually get your stakeholder to run the show instead of you in events such as Iteration Planning, Showcases etc? How is 'soft' business value delivered by upskilling the client?

* CCP: Cut the crap, Copy, Paste best practices in your own process: How to setup the team to deliver key business value continuously. We will also talk about enablers in this section.

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Girish speaks about NoSQL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DkGuIKCcU4

Girish Karachiwala is Head of Technology at Compassites Software. In this video, he talks about NoSQL and the related advantages. NoSQL is a broad class of database management systems identified by non-adherence to the widely used relational database management system model. Girish goes on to talk about the different types of NoSQL databases such as key values pairs, columnar databases, document databases, & graphic databases and how you can decide which one to use for your project requirements.

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Evolution of the cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp4cFzz-bBI

Yatin Kulkarni, is the Chief Architect of Cloud Computing at Compassites Software. In this video, he takes us through the evolution of the concept of cloud computing and the current options that are available in the market for customers.

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Odondo - File a report demo (product developed by Compassites)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DwIVQ7Xs2c

Odondo derived its name from the term for "talking drum" used by tribal people in Ghana from Africa. It is a tool that helps the directors and management of a company to listen to real people on the ground and feel the pulse of their organization. Odondo aims to permeate positive energies in an organization. Odondo's goal is simple; to facilitate robust communication that feeds into a 360° IT enabled solution. The tool delivers value to both ends of any business: the people end and the enterprise end. The people involved in the organization use simple user-friendly interfaces to let the organization know about the potential risks to their reputation, brand and business. On the other hand, the boards and management gets acquainted with the real pulse of the organization, and does the needful to avert unwanted situations.

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Webinar: Architecture best practices to optimally leverage Beanstalk and CloudFormation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVh3wG09oYc

One of the pain points with migrating your app to the cloud is that while it's pretty easy to setup a server in the cloud and load up your software, the basic setup usually won't scale over time. As a result your developers end up spending time managing the scalability and availability and creating solutions around the same, or you end up outsourcing and paying to manage this.

New age services such as Amazon Web Services, BeanStalk and CloudFormation, address these pain points by providing environments and tools which automatically handles the capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling and application health monitoring etc, while allowing us to retain full control over the AWS resources and giving system administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly fashion.

So are these services cost competitive as compared to outsourcing the management of your infrastructure to some PAAS provider? Do these services support any technology stack? Do they support any and all the architectures that your apps implement? What are the optimal architectures that your applications should implement to leverage these services to their fullest?

Watch this video to get the answers to these questions and to discuss how your apps could leverage various services to achieve max elasticity and availability to your application, allowing applications to handle peaks in demand, while you are not forced to pay for resources you don't need.

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Manoj Patil : Big Data Analytics with Hadoop, Hbase and MapReduce!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYFJQAt_G0

In this video, Manoj Patil (Chief Architect of Big Data Analytics) at Compassites Software talks about the benefits of using the clustered approach for Big Data analytics. He also talks about MPP (Massive Parallel Programming) solutions such as like MongoDB and the MapReduce algorithm from Google. Manoj also touches upon the Hadoop Distributed File System which works through named nodes, lookup nodes and worker nodes. Manoj concludes by talking about Hbase, the query based language that supports random access.

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The Rose Model of Ideation : Naveen Lakkur, Founder Director at Compassites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jzEAba69E

Naveen Lakkur, Director at Compassites talks about the "Rose Model" of Ideation. Naveen has a track record of 5 successful IT start-up initiatives in his professional career. He is an expert in building IT start-ups and has demonstrated his proficiency in innovating, validating and converting ideas into working business models. He has also gained experience from large companies such as Wipro Technologies and Digital Global Soft (merged with HP). Over time, he has donned several roles and worn many hats: Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Program Manager, Head of Technology Delivery and Vice-President.

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