Back to IC

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Engineering Management : Lessons learned in first year. It's been more than a year since I have been back to an Individual Contributor (IC) role. So I have been reflecting on that. Why the switch back to IC? So why the change from management career path … Continue reading Back to IC →

ML model monitoring

May 20, 2021 Kornel and I wrote about our team’s work on “Maintaining Machine Learning Model Accuracy Through Monitoring” on the DoorDash Engineering blog: https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/20/monitor-machine-learning-model-drift/ Maintaining-Machine-Learning-Model-Accuracy-Through-Monitoring-_-DoorDash-Engineering-BlogDownload Jul 23, 2021 I presented at Fifth Elephant MLOps conference on behalf of the Machine Learning Platform team at DoorDash: https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/mlops-conference/sub/maintaining-machine-learning-model-accuracy-throug-YPGFq3zN62YD6kuQNNq8gX 5el-mlops-model-monitoringDownload https://videopress.com/v/sVQpgytG?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata

My experience with Udacity Deep Learning Foundation course

If you don’t know what is machine learning, just know this from Francois Chollet (creator of Keras)’s “Deep Learning with Python” book : Classical programming vs. Machine learning After attending the AI Frontiers conference at the beginning of this year, I was amazed, fascinated and befuddled at what actually is machine learning and deep learning and all of the … Continue reading My experience with Udacity Deep Learning Foundation course →

Notes from AIFrontiers conference

My soothsayer friend BG told me last year that “deep learning is the next big thing”. I didn’t know what that meant. A few days ago, I attended the AIFrontiers conference in Santa Clara, California. Now I have a glimpse of what he meant :-) What is Intelligence? In this context, by “intelligence”, I interpret it as “smart”. Yes, … Continue reading Notes from AIFrontiers conference →

Using Spacemacs

In the past couple of months, I’ve been using and, a first for me, regularly contributing to this open source project called Spacemacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs Spacemacs is a new distribution of Emacs. Think what Ubuntu did for GNU/Linux – Spacemacs is doing the same for GNU Emacs. It combines all the existing great pieces and providing an easy-to-use good-looking … Continue reading Using Spacemacs →

Load testing using Tsung

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Eight programming lessons learned in 2013

Although it’s not yet the last month of the year, I was in a reflective mood, and jotted down programming lessons I learned this year: Spend time first on what you’re going to do, iterate several times on the “plan”, and when you get to the computer, it should just be about typing out what you have already decided.Of … Continue reading Eight programming lessons learned in 2013 →

Revamped isbn.net.in

Because of constant badgering from loyal isbn.net.in users (Navdeep, Chinmay, Hari, Sandip, Vidyaraj, Kartik, Vivek, Arjun, Leo, Ravi and others), I finally had to dedicate a weekend to fixing up isbn.net.in. However, instead of just fixing up the old code base, I rewrote it to use Compojure instead of the deprecated Noir library, and … Continue reading Revamped isbn.net.in →

[Tech] Why is “Database Layer as a REST API” not common?

We have "database APIs" such as abstraction layers over multiple SQL databases and ORMs. But why not take it to the next step and make it a REST API like any other network call that we can make? Advantages would be: The sharing of database ORM models across multiple programming languages will be seamless. Making … Continue reading [Tech] Why is “Database Layer as a REST API” not common? →