Telugu Bytes
84 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsA podcast in Telugu about technology, programming, music, movies, life in the Bay Area and other stuff. Find us at telugubytes.com and twitter.com/telugubytes.
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034 - Random Stuff
April 14, 2017 15:35 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBWhat is this episode about? Nothing Telugu Bytes Quarterly Report Website revamp Recent episodes Tharun Bhasker’s feedback Backstories Who are our audience? An analysis Logo Refresh History of our logo Saawan’s design Our take Recent movies PK’s movies and Katamarayudu Programming Interviews - Part 3? Dhruv’s recent job change Why? What he’ll be working on Interview Prep String questions Dynamic Programming Graphs System Design! LeetCode Comm...
033 - Interview with Tarun (Part 2)
March 26, 2017 08:21 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBRavi sits down with Tarun Cherukuri, his childhood friend and CEO of INDUS Action, for two part interview. In the second part, they talk about: Tarun's experience at his first job in Unilever Experiences which turned him to social service Life at Teach for India Experience at Harvard Starting and Leading IndusAction If you haven't listened yet, please listen 032 - Interview with Tarun (Part 1) Links INDUS Action: https://www.indusaction.org/project-team Tarun Cherukuri: https:...
032 - Interview with Tarun (Part 1)
March 18, 2017 03:09 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBRavi sits down with Tarun Cherukuri, his childhood friend and CEO of INDUS Action, for two part interview. Their experiences at VPS, Vijayawada His passion for sports and Badminton His experiences at BITS Pilani Interviewing and landing a job (Continued in Part 2) Links INDUS Action: https://www.indusaction.org/project-team Tarun Cherukuri: https://in.linkedin.com/in/taruncherukuri Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarunch Tarun goes to Harvard: http://www.thehindu....
031 - Indian Super'bowl' 2
March 13, 2017 02:17 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBAfter almost an year later, Aravind and Ravi get back to discuss one of their favorite topic - trips to India. They talk about Ravi's recent trip to India and his experiences. Follow up Air India (SFO to Delhi) Progress in Vijayawada Temples in Tirupati and Thanjavur Staying in Chennai Sankranthi Movies Next episode guest!
030 - Pelli Choopulu
March 11, 2017 03:02 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBDhruv and Aravind talk about the 2016 Telugu rom-com/coming-of-age film Pelli Choopulu. Our take on the film Dhruv Aravind Success of the film Budget Run in the USA Indie films and distribution models Thoughts on the film Story Screenplay Characterizations Treatment Dialogues The Telangana dialect Tharun Bhasker's idlebrain postmortem Thoughts on acting Vijay Deverakonda Ritu Verma Priyadarshi Anish Kuruvilla Nandu Kedar Shankar The crew Cinemato...
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028 - Everything is Continuous!
June 19, 2016 02:02 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBRavi & Aravind ponder over how software release process has evolved last decade Instagram Release Process Jenkins 2.0 Here Disclaimer: The views expressed in this episode are ours and do not represent those of our employers.
027 - Pokiri
April 30, 2016 21:29 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBOn its tenth anniversary, Ravi, Aravind and Dhruv do a scene-by-scene review of the Puri-Mahesh blockbuster and even try to derive some life lessons from the film. Our quick take on the film Ravi Aravind Dhruv Flashback to 2006 Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIwjSBIW4w Experience watching the film for the first time Subsequent viewings The pre-climax twist Google movie summary https://www.google.com/search?q=pokiri Fights in the film Shed fight MMTS fight One-liner...
026 - Cricket
March 07, 2016 08:31 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBIn this episode, Dhruv, Praveen & Aravind get together & chat about their cricketing memories, favorite matches, upcoming T20 cricket world cup in India, current Indian team & their chances, and players around the world to watch out. Links Playing Cricket and my Eternal Damnation by Dhruv
025 - Silver Jubilee
March 01, 2016 04:12 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBOn our 25th episode, Ravi and Dhruv look back at what went well and what didn't. Flashback Looking back at the flashback Inception Our Frequency Inspirations and lessons learnt from them State of podcasting in India and future Our strengths Our new strategy Introducing our new hosts What didn't go well Q & A format Incoherence Lack of scripts and preparation What went well The name "Telugu Bytes" Rise in recording quality Expansion Favorite Episodes Ravi - Nannaku Premath...
024 - Indian Super'bowl'
February 07, 2016 10:09 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBAravind is back from India after a long trip and shares his thoughts on the weather, philanthropy, education, IT and everything else happening in India. Teach for India Folllow Tarun Cherukuri on Facebook Hindu coverage of Tarun
023 - Nannaku Prematho
January 22, 2016 07:31 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBDhruv and Aravind try to follow follow follow follow Sukumar's latest thriller Nannaku Prematho. This episode is full of spoilers. Spoiler Alert Sukumar's 3 Cs - Concept, Creativity and.. we'll talk about the third later. Dhruv's take AK's take 3 kinds of moviegoers and how Sukumar impresses them 3 lead roles and how they performed Supporting cast and crew 3 roles of Sukumar - story, screenplay and direction - how he did 3 favorite scenes in the film of ours The third C is *---*---...
022 - Too much JavaScript
January 19, 2016 01:09 - 42 minutes - 39 MBRavi laments about too many JavaScript frameworks, Praveen tries to make sense of all this and bring some sanity. History of Javascript HTML, CSS and Javascript - How all of them work together? Gmail history and pioneers of AJAX Advent of JQuery MVC pattern Different JavaScript MVC frameworks BackboneJS ReactJS AngularJS Facebook reverses MobileWeb approach Praveen concludes that lack of diversity in client side languages forced developers to bootstrap various Server side paradigm...
021 - Movies of 2015
December 31, 2015 06:58 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBDhruv Vemula and 'Spidy' Sri Atluru talk about the best Telugu and English films they've seen in 2015, and the worst ones.. Telugu films including Baahubali, Srimanthudu, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, Bruce Lee, Akhil etc. English films including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, Mad Max, Star Wars etc. Other good films we might have missed
020 - Praveen about Interviews and Experience in Uber & Paypal
December 29, 2015 09:20 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBWe have a second guest after Spidy at Telugubytes. In this episode, Ravi talks to Praveen, longtime listener of Telugubytes, Software Engineer at Uber & Paypal about his career as Software Engineer and how he got started. Praveen and Ravi reminisce about their early days of grad school Praveen explains how he prepared and what it takes to succeed in interviews. Experience at Uber versus Paypal Ondemand economy and its implications on future Follow us at Twitter for updates about the ...
019 - Ads and Ad-Blockers
December 05, 2015 20:33 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBWith iOS9, the discussion on web ads and ad-blockers has gone mainstream. In this episode, Dhruv and Ravi have a discussion on the topic. Origin of web ads Newspaper ads and TV ads Ad Networks Google and Facebook Ad-Blocking in Firefox and Chrome iOS 9 content blockers Native ads Facebook Instant Articles Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
018 - Baahubali : The Future of Telugu Films
November 23, 2015 02:28 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBWe discuss the success of Baahubali and discuss if it can change the way Telugu films are produced and marketed. Ticket prices and the "range" of Telugu films Baahubali's production and financing Remunerations of Telugu film stars Collections and fan wars
017 - Baahubali : The Rise of Rajamouli
July 22, 2015 01:24 - 51 minutes - 47.8 MBWe chart the rise of SS Rajamouli over the years, from Shantinivasam to Baahubali. Shantinivasam Student No. 1 and the years of obscurity Simhadri Intensity Inspirations from Braveheart Dialogues and dramatization Sye The villain Chatrapathi Utilizing Prabhas The interval block Vikramarkudu Sleaze in the first half Titla The mass appeal Yamadonga The pre-interval scene NTR's transformation Magadheera His best story? Periods of sustained drama His in...
016 - Baahubali : Exploring the Epic
July 16, 2015 08:40 - 1 hour - 58 MBDhruv and Spidy (Sri Atluru) attempt a review of Baahubali. This episode is full of spoilers. Please watch the movie before you listen. Please! We sometimes slip into English during the conversation. It's not deliberate. Excuse us. We sometimes refer to celebrities (cast and crew) in the singular (athadu, vaadu). This is purely because it's a casual conversation between friends. We mean no disrespect - we love and adore them! How we liked the movie Talk from the audience Announce...
015 - What's Up With Twitter
July 07, 2015 07:53 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBDhruv and Ravi's take on trips and planning Dick Costolo is stepping down as CEO of Twitter An employee's farewell letter BBC's worst CEOs of 2014 TWTR stock price in the last three months What is Twitter? Microblogging service or a social network Montly Active Users (MAU) Twitter vs. Facebook MAU Chris Sacca's open letter - What Twitter Can Be 1 billion people have tried Twitter, but most don't stick Is the onboarding process broken? Are they slow to execute? Wha...
014 - Apple WWDC 2015
June 29, 2015 03:17 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBEl Capitan, the name (hint: Yosemite's half-dome) OS X Wi-Fi performance Metal on OS X Possibilities on Apple TV iOS 9 Search and deep linking to apps WebKit content blocker WKWebView watchOS 2 Native apps Possibilities Apple Music and Apple News
013 - Google I/O 2015
June 05, 2015 08:05 - 30 minutes - 28 MBSundar Pichai's shoutout to the TV show 'Silicon Valley' Hooli, the fictitious company in the show Android M Granular app permissions Web views can share cookies Google Now on Tap Josh Topolsky's article on Google Now on Tap. Google Photos Competition: Flickr, Amazon Photos, iCloud photo library, Dropbox Machine learning for photos Android Pay Google Cardboard (VR headset) Google : RGV :: Oculus : Rajamouli
012 - A Really Expensive Fitness Tracker
May 22, 2015 01:46 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBDhruv's thoughts on his Apple Watch Pricing - is it really worth it? Fitness trackers: Apple Watch vs. Fitbit vs. others Other features Dhruv's India trip Situation in Telangana Situation in Andhra Weather Tech scene in Bangalore Indian tech salaries vs. US salaries Web apps vs. Mobile apps for Indian startups
011 - Spring Forward
March 13, 2015 15:23 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThoughts on MacBook Pros and cons Looks Ports Who is it for? Competition: Dell XPS 13, Asus and Acer's ultrabooks Would you buy? Thoughts on Apple Watch Pricing Would you buy? Which one? Competition: Fitbit, Pebble What's the best smartphone in the market? Sorry for the background hiss, couldn't get rid of it completely.
010 - Programming Interviews : Part 2
March 01, 2015 23:03 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBWhat to prepare: Dhruv's take Ravi's take Algorithms: Linked lists, stacks and queues, sorting, trees and search, hash tables, graphs, strings, dynamic programming Textbooks: CLRS, Algorithms by Sedgewick Sedgewick's Algorithms's courses on Coursera. Cracking the Coding Interview Programming Interviews Exposed LeetCode When to prepare: Dhruv's take Ravi's take How to prepare: Solving on whiteboards Attitude Resume and projects
009 - Programming Interviews : Part 1
February 22, 2015 23:01 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBThis is Part 1 on our two-part podcast on Programming Interviews. This week, we talk about how we went from hating programming interviews to understanding and appreciating them, and doing well. Our first experience with programming interviews at BITS Pilani in 2005-06. How our friend Sankar Tanguturi mastered the art of interviews, and taught us how to do the same. Our initial hatred for interviews Why should I study algorithms etc. to interview for jobs where I'll be doing something...
008 - Happy New Year
January 10, 2015 06:24 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBPawan Kalyan on Twitter. Why do celebrities use Twitter? Why not Facebook? Reach of Facebook vs. Twitter in India Can we use Twitter analytics as a metric for success? 2014 in tech Things Dhruv is looking forward to in 2015 Apple Watch Rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning Internet of Things (IoT) Virtual Reality (VR)
007 - Building a Desktop
October 28, 2014 03:10 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBChat about how and why Ravi built his new desktop, and memories of our first computers. Why did Ravi need a new computer? When did we buy our first computers? "Assembled" computers and pirated software Famous computers at BITS - Russell's media machine How to pick parts for a modern-day desktop CPU and motherboard RAM and SSD Monitors Economics of buying a branded computer vs. building it How long does it take to research and build one Breakdown of the cost Our current...
006 - More Apple stuff and Movies with Spidy
September 30, 2014 15:11 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis week we have our first special guest, Sri Atluru (SPIDY), who joins us to discuss about the iPhone event, Apple Pay and where Apple is going in general. We end this episode with a 20 minute long Tollywood ramble about new and upcoming releases. (Disclaimer: All the comments in the end about actors/directors are made in a lighter vein, please don’t consider them as personal attacks on anyone.) Dhruv buys iPhone 6 and his initial views on the device Spidy follows up with his views on ...
005 - iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch
September 19, 2014 07:12 - 33 minutes - 31 MBTopics: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ Would Steve Jobs allowed this mutiple screen sizes? Android Comparisons Galaxy Ad Move from Apple to Android Guide Apple Pay How is the authentication done? How much difference does it make? Does Paypal need to really fear this? Paypal ad Apple Watch Some thoughts on the spectacular intro video Thoughts on this new category and Apple’s approach to it Aagadu Expectations and some lackluster music by Thaman (as usual) Ai Some thoughts on Shankar’...
004 - iCloud accounts hacked
September 08, 2014 03:11 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBIn the fourth and the first episode since the beta launch, we thank the audience for their support and clarify couple of questions/concerns from the audience. iPhone 6 Release Coming Tuesday the rumour mill is ripe that Apple is going to release their next version of iPhone and iWatch Dhruv discusses some of the features which Apple is rumored to release in this release. iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack Last week, an infamous celebrity photo hack has been the point of discussion by both main...
003 - More Cloud
September 04, 2014 03:24 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBSaavn, the Spotify for Indian music that Ravi has great things to say about. Owning vs. Streaming music - What do we prefer? Where are we heading? What is virtualization? How does this relate to cloud computing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization? A brief history of virtualization Major players in server virtualization - ESX, Hyper-V, RHEV and Xen An intro to storage virtualization and network virtualization Top three providers of IaaS, PaaS and Saa...
002 - Cloud
August 20, 2014 05:24 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode, Ravi and Dhruv discuss the buzzword-ridden and often confusing term 'Cloud Computing'. What is cloud? Why is everybody talking about it? Watch this guy explain "Cloud CDs" and what happens to them when it rains. Isn't my home computer good enough? How about a server? Why do I need cloud? Is the cloud model good or bad for small consumers? What is the difference between public cloud and private cloud? What is IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), PaaS (platform-aaS),...
001 - The Pilot
August 16, 2014 02:27 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBIn the first episode, Dhruv and Ravi kick things off by introducing themselves and talk about podcasting - their favorite podcasts and why they started this one. The discussion turns to Kickstarter, LeBron's move to Cleveland and American sports in general. Links from the podcast: Telugu Tharanga, a podcast we found. Kickstarter, a site that lets you raise money for your products Hanselminutes, a podcast that we love. LeBron's move to his old team, Cleveland Cavaliers. You c...