Systems programming

I started my career in India as an Java application programmer. This was completely different from my training as an engineer in my undergraduate school. During my undergraduate days some of my favourite courses were compilers, systems programming and operating systems. (To be honest my undergraduate training was pathetic and makes me puke when I think about what I learned in that period).

One of my favourite undergraduate book was Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum. I specifically remember one of the chapters in that book deals with RPC and the NFS protocol. I am really glad that I am working on some of these technologies now. I think getting to work and develop such technologies would have just being fantasy for me if I had decided to stay back in India. My graduate studies and research really exposed and trained me on distributed computer architecture, systems programming and am loving it.