Week 8 - Coronovirus

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Link to Week 7 

Monday April 27



Sufi resting the whole world on her nose.



Sufi loves to sleep under tables



Charu gives finishing touches for this cauliflower Chinese dish



Kidference in progress







Saturday evening we have Pani poori


Prithvi and I go for a walk on the terrace. Here is our balcony from the other side. Its a tropical forest.








Middle of the week - San gets to know of two of our employees helping out people near their locality. She sends 5000 Rs to each of them to help them out.

Rs.1000 will help a family of 5 people for a week. Here is the update we got from one of the employees. 




Atta- 5Kg
Rice - 5kg
Toor Dal - 1kg
Moong daal - 1kg
Onion- 2kg 
Potato-2kg
Sugar- 1kg
Gram Flour - 1kg
Tea Leaf-300 Gms
Soap - 1 Nos
Salt - 1Kg, Oil - 2ltr

Name :Munir
Address : Squatters colony, Malad east
Profession :Mechanic
No. Of family members : 8
Earning person : 1
Mobile Number :  *******

Name : Sufiyan 
Address : flyover society
 goregaon east
Profession : 
No of family members : 05
Earning person : 1

Name : Geeta Shirola 
Address : squatters colony , Malad east
No of fam mem : 4
Mob No : *******


Name : Wasim 
Address : flyover society goregaon east 
Profession : Auto rickshaw driver
No of family members : 06
Earning person : 01
Mobile Number : *******


Name: Abdulla
Address : squatters colony, Malad east
Profession : Plumber
No of family members : 5 
Earning person : 1
Mobile Number : *******

I took Prithvi for the once a week supply shopping. He was stepping out after 2 whole months. He picked 4 bottles of Bitter Lemon Schweppes.  I did not see the price - apparently it was a wholly imported beverage - and each one was Rs.125. Felt guilty that here we are splurging on imported stuff, and families around the country are going hungry.

We decided not to buy any more of these stuff. And step up sending money to people who are helping others. 


Here are some funny forwards we got this week












Even though Friday (May 1 ) ,Sat,Sunday was a long weekend, I ended up working all 3 days. Server load went up and I tried Auto scaling for the first time - but it did not have much impact. I have been optimising multiple bottle necks last few months and the bottle neck keeps shifting. Performance optimisation is a never ending job.

On company front we continued the cuts we did on March for this quarter. Over the weekend came to know that one of our competitors is giving Life Time Free - the ERP part of their product. They were giving it free wherever they were going head on head with us - but this was new - announcing out in the open. Giving the product free by a heavily VC funded company is a strategy we have been fighting for the last 10 years. However this time it is different because it is not just one - but 3 VC funded companies in the fray fighting with one ADDA. 2 of them are real estate brokering companies who have acquired companies like us - and for these companies the ERP + Visitor Management part is not their core income, they give it free. Third is the Visitor Management App startup - who is the one giving the ERP part lifetime free. The fight just went up another level. Have to sharpen our weapons and warriors. 

On Saturday ADDA did a Webinar. It was well received - more than 100 participants were there. One of the presenters - Dr.Aravind gave a confidence boosting pep talk. 



My Todo plate is overflowing - going into May. Have noted down a few optimisations for the server load issues. Will tackle them first. 


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