Google’s approach to testing is fascinating – in terms of definition, roles, processes, tools.
Category Archives: Tech
“Notes on structured concurrency”
Here’s an example of clear thinking and elucidation around concurrency
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 […]
[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 […]
Micro targeting
Recently the Obama re-election campaign employed similar population-wide behavioral analytics to micro-target voters to ensure his re-election. There is no reason why we in India must not look to technology to devise ingenious methods for near real time data collection and population-wide analytics of social performance. This will not only help micro-target and localise welfare […]
Back to Org Mode
Synchronizing tasks, notes, calendars, etc. between desktop and mobile turned out to be a distraction rather than helping me, so I moved again to OrgMode. Here’s why.
Review: Big Data Book by Nathan Marz
Recently, I finished reading the latest “early access” version of the Big Data Book by Nathan Marz. This book has been fascinating because of a strong and simple “first principles” approach and because this general approach allowed just 3 engineers to manage the huge BackType system.
Created an app for live preview of Pandoc
When my wife was editing my books, she used Mou.app for live preview of the text so that she knows what the output is going to be like. The caveat was that Mou.app does plain Markdown and not Pandoc format which would mean the preview would be screwed up whenever there was a code block, etc., so, […]
Why is Whatsapp so pervasive?
I’m astounded on how popular Whatsapp really is – here are some amazing examples and some wild guesses on why it is popular.
A Byte of Python now available as EPUB
Thanks to my wife, who converted the book from Mediawiki syntax to Pandoc format, readers can now enjoy the book in their iBooks or Kindle, etc.