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Published in Lalitha Sahasranama Stotram

·Jun 7, 2021

Udyad bhānu sahasrābhā

The expanding universe — udyad bhānu sahasrābhā catur bāhu samanvitā rāga svarūpa paśaḍhyā krodhākāraṅkuśojvalā manorūpekṣo kodaṇḍā pañcatanmātra sāyakā nijāruṇa prabhā pūra majjad brahmāṇḍa manḍalā udyad bhānu sahasrābhā This is often translated as something along the lines of a thousand suns rising. It is actually a bit simpler and more significant than that. We can say that bhānu…

Lalitha Sahasranamam

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Udyad bhānu sahasrābhā
Udyad bhānu sahasrābhā

Published in Lalitha Sahasranama Stotram

·May 30, 2021

Śri Māta

The beginning, the end, and everything between — Lalith Sahasranama starts with: śrī māta śrī māharajñi śrīmat siṃhāseneśvarī ś ś expands to śṛṅgāra — which is often translated as desire, or passion, or love. In reality it is all of these. But it implies kindness. Anything, done with kindness or love as the motivation can be classified as śṛṅgāra…

Sri Vidya

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Śri Māta
Śri Māta

Jan 4, 2021

IP Exchange

Trading Intellectual Property — In Capitalism without Capital, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake talk about intellectual property being a more valuable asset in the decades ahead than traditional means of production. …

Futurism

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Nov 23, 2020

Mental Obesity

Consuming too much information — There is a lot of information and as restaurants have turned nutrition into entertainment, platforms such as TED, Blinkist, and most news agencies, have turned information into entertainment so that it can be consumed. However, like any non-athlete will know, too much food results in fat buildup…and this is not…

Knowledge

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Published in What The Cat Dragged In

·Feb 29, 2020

Bifröst: The shimmering path to Heaven

A meditation on the Tantric Agni Mandala — yam dhūmrāciṣe Morning dew rising spreading a misty fog. Gentle steps take us out of our home and across the fresh meadow where droplets of water hang on green grass. The smell of moist soil rises into our nostrils and calms our nerves. …

Tantra

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Bifröst: The shimmering path to Heaven
Bifröst: The shimmering path to Heaven

Oct 2, 2019

To my few followers

Thanks for following me In the past I have been using this space to write anything that came to mind. This led to 4 general divisions in terms of topics covered: Spiritual Philosophy General musings on ideas bridging philosophy and spiritual reflection, based on literary sources and analysis. …

Tech

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Sep 2, 2019

Handling medium size files with Lambda

We have many big data tools but we still need some tools for not so big data — Below is a workflow to effectively use Amazon’s serverless offerings to load medium size files into a database, whether SQL or otherwise. MapReduce MapReduce is a programming paradigm where big data is processed by mapping a large file to several reducers for parallel processing. We can effectively user Lambda to map…

Serverless

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Published in Code Smells

·May 21, 2019

Understanding OAuth: Grants

From a practical perspective — There is a lot written about OAuth and grant types and my goal here is to be a little sparse on complexity and instead provide practical guidance. I’ve also seen a lot of examples suggesting if Native App use this, if Webapp use this etc. I also don’t think that…

Oauth

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Understanding OAuth Grants
Understanding OAuth Grants

Published in Code Smells

·Apr 15, 2019

Complexity, Uncertainty, and Emergent Design in Software Architecture

A story of degrees of freedom — Norman R. Augustine, when delivering the 1996 Woodruff Distinguished Lecture, narrates a story of trial and error with missiles in the Vietnam War. Ignoring the ethical implications of the war and military gear in general, the talk revealed the complexity of delivering a working product. At one point they shipped…

Software Development

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Complexity, Uncertainty, and Emergent Design in Software Architecture
Complexity, Uncertainty, and Emergent Design in Software Architecture

Mar 21, 2019

How Agile are you

KPIs for agility — When looking for agile KPIs I get lots of links with charts, tables, and metrics. And those are important to see how a team is performing and as part of conversation starters (maybe what is being charted is not right…). But what can tell us if we are actually “agile”…

Agile

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How Agile are you
How Agile are you
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