GS Lab recently completed 17 years and I could not help but reflect on this long journey. For more than 2 decades, we have been dealing with products; 300+ to put a number on it. We have seen many successful product journeys as well as failures. And we have developed more than 20 products of...
3GPP specifications are evolving, revised versions of many of these specifications are produced up to four times a year following the quarterly TSG plenary meetings. It has always been challenging to ensure that the network cores are compliant with evolving 3GPP standards. Private LTE and 5G use cases add even more test scenarios on a...
The challenges, choices and role of workplace culture. We are the brightest, happiest and most buoyant at the dawn of our career; full of fervor to move forward, achieve more and create a rightful future for ourselves. However, as we embark on this journey, we sometimes do not foresee the difficult choices that stand ahead...
Open Banking is an evolving and innovative norm in consumer banking. Open Banking refers to providing access to consumer banking through the use of Application programming interfaces (APIs) to third-party service providers. This provides open access to banking transactions and other financial data from Banks and NBFCs. This enables networking of accounts by consumers, financial institutions and...
Over the years, many had predicted that Java was on the verge of dying and would soon be replaced by other, newer languages. Subsequently, there was a boom in contenders trying to usurp Java and claim the throne. Attempts were made by languages such as Python, Perl, C#, Ruby, etc. but Java weathered the storm...
Networking involves two primary teams, namely network development engineers and network operations engineers. These two teams have different responsibilities. The development team works on code development and testing, whereas the operations team deals with the environment, IT architecture, deployment, availability, etc. Traditionally there are silos across these teams, and multiple hands-off are involved while taking...
That which does not get measured does not get managed. The manufacturing and process industry of today is taking this more seriously than ever. Since the earliest days of manufacturing, factory operators have quantified various parameters like processes, input, output, efficiency, inventory, wastage etc. Tracking such key metrics has helped them in finding underlying problems,...
In my previous blog, I discussed Hibernate and database integration challenges. In this blog, I shall share my experience with Liquibase and database versioning challenges. Database versioning – the expected challenges Delivering improvements to the database across different environments and into the production has often taken a lot of overhead. Especially when you have a...
Database - an essential part of the application Every application requires a well-defined and organized way of managing their data. It also needs a standard and simple way to perform CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) operations, which is usually taken care of by different kinds of databases. Today the database has become an essential part...
With the fast-paced technology evolution, software developers are actively finding the most successful and competent way to do things. While it is always all about making something more and more efficient, it’s often only a matter of milliseconds when it comes to the software world. In this blog, we shall discuss one of the problems...