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**Telugu Bytes**

A 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.

Latest Episodes:

028 - Everything is Continuous! Jun 19, 2016

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Ravi & Aravind ponder over how software release process has evolved last decade

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this episode are ours and do not represent those of our employers.

027 - Pokiri Apr 30, 2016

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On 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-liners of the film
The character of Pandugadu - life lessons
The character of Pasupathy
Den scene
Shootout scene
Basketball court scene
Pandu - Shruthi love thread
Confrontation scenes between Pandu and Pasupathy
Gang wars
Management lessons from the henchman Guru
Ali Bhai
Pasha's satires on media
Twist and the big reveal
Climax
Comedy scenes

026 - Cricket Mar 07, 2016

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In 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.

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Playing Cricket and my Eternal Damnation by Dhruv

025 - Silver Jubilee Mar 01, 2016

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On 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 Prematho
- Dhruv - Programming Interviews
What to look forward to
- 50 episodes by EOY
- Emphasis on quality
- Emphasis on consistency and regularity

024 - Indian Super'bowl' Feb 07, 2016

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Aravind 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 Jan 22, 2016

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Dhruv 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 *---*---*---*
Complaints about the film
Looking forward

022 - Too much JavaScript Jan 19, 2016

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Ravi 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 paradigms as JS frameworks

021 - Movies of 2015 Dec 31, 2015

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Dhruv 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 Dec 29, 2015

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We 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.