Posts Tagged ‘Tech it or live it’

A redesigned homepage

A couple of weeks ago, we redesigned our main home page at pagalguy.com – long over due stuff! For a long time we were limited by our prior choice of software in the design and our content as well. All is changed now.  Our focus was to get the content to be more readable, useful [...]

Positions Updated

We’ve updated the list of positions available with us on the join-us page.  We hope to hear from driven & talented people interested in working with us.  At the end of the month our team size would be just around 25 – we have doubled our gang in the last year and hope to keep adding [...]

Of load balancing, traffic and bad code

Nothing survives bad code.  Absolutely nothing.
For a month before CAT we spent a lot of time managing the hardware infrastructure at PG and scaling it.  We hit all the usual roadblocks of scaling mySQL  and Apache.  Working around them was both fun and enlightening.
We ended up running a multiple server configuration that allowed us [...]

The return of the Macs

This week, our office finally has mac users as the majority. Over this last year people have been jumping over to Macs – all this started with Apurv, Vinu and then went over to Sandeep, Naga and then to Raj and now even Khusbhu seems to be eyeing a mac. (because a mac doesn’t get [...]

The PaGaLGuY B-School Rankings 2008

Here she is – in all her beauty. The PaGaLGuY B-School Rankings 2008. From thought, to execution to becoming the largest ranking initiative in the nation – this was one hell of a ride. Please go ahead and read the articles, discuss on the forums and work with us to create v2.0 of the [...]

Mobile Madness

On a winter afternoon this January, one Vinu Ranganathan entered our office and started evangelizing mobile phones as Pagalguy’s way forward. We were sure he had entered the wrong office. Fast forward four months and we are all set to go more mobile than ever. This is what Economic Times says about us:
Pagalguy.com, the country’s [...]

Group before you discuss

Minutes before an IIM admission interview or group discussion starts, you would most likely see the gathering of shortlisted candidates asking each other if they are on PaGaLGuY.com and what user IDs they are known by. For 2006 admissions, one institute (Goa Institute of Management) even had PaGaLGuY.com as a Group Discussion topic.
Using the agile [...]