Jan 7The Engineer-iZATION of Data PracticesThe desire for maintainability, extensibility reusability, and scalability (other “-ity” could be added as well) is causing the demand for “ENGINEER-iZATION” of different data management facets. 1. Data Reliability Engineering — Inspired by Google SRE, refers to the work of creating — Standards, process, platform etc. to keep the data…Data3 min readData3 min read
Nov 13, 2022What can marriage teach us about system design and thinkingThe disciple wanted to understand what marriage is and went to his teacher. Like always, instead of giving a straight answer, the teacher asked the disciple to bring him the BEST walking stick. Confused but not to question the teacher, the disciple set out for the jungle. It was a…System Design Concepts2 min readSystem Design Concepts2 min read
Jan 30, 2022How To Live Happily For 100 YearsI recently came across the idea of Ikigai. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your ‘reason for being’. It seems that people practicing it, are among the longest living people on the planet. The concept of Ikigai was created on the Okinawa Islands and the residents there, are are…Personal Growth5 min readPersonal Growth5 min read
Jul 4, 2021So, What Does An Architect Do“SO, WHAT YOU DO” asked the elderly person sitting next to me in bank waiting lounge. Apparently his curiosity was piqued by the books I was carrying. “I AM A SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS ARCHITECT”!! It was a quick reply with the assumption that “software” would explain it clearly and is…Architecture3 min readArchitecture3 min read
Dec 5, 2020What mac donald Can Teach You About Concurrency and ParallelismIf you feel like impressing or scaring the candidate in a technical interview (NEVER DO IT) then this question may top the lists. “What is the difference between concurrent execution and parallel execution”. There is something about concurrency and parallelism concept. It just doesn’t lands in the initial learning. Every…Concurrency5 min readConcurrency5 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 30, 2020alternat — The Open Sourced Alternate Text GeneratorProbably this is how an inaccessible website feels like to a visually impaired person. The problem is not just about an exclusion of a group but has severe financial implications. As per results from the 2019 Click-Away Pound Survey, UK retailers lose £17 billion years by ignoring accessibility needs. But…Accessibility7 min readAccessibility7 min read
Jun 9, 2020Genus — Generate HTML from sketches in secondsEffective prototyping is the first step to success. While it is easy for designers to flesh them out in vector based UX toolkits like Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma and the likes, But it is not so easy for developers to quickly convert those designs into working code. …Prototyping4 min readPrototyping4 min read
Nov 27, 2019idea2Life — Prototype Blazing FastPrototyping a web application is more about ideas than mere sketching wireframes. The biggest barrier to effective prototyping is time and cost. idea2Life is an AI powered rapid prototyping to lower the barrier of prototyping. With idea2Life, you can create fully functional static websites by just clicking a picture. …Docker3 min readDocker3 min read
Oct 9, 2019Smart Image Cropping with katnaSome of the simple tasks for humans can be very tedious for machines. Image cropping is one of them. It's quite easy for human to identify the important area in a photo and decide the parts to retain or crop. But for machines, it is quite difficult. Katna is a…Python4 min readPython4 min read
Aug 26, 2019Video Key Frame Extraction With katnaLet us do this exercise — Watch this video and find out which frames are concise representation of the full video. While watching the entire video, scrubbing frame by frame or pausing at right moment to get an unblurry frame is OK for few videos, the process becomes unimaginable…Python3 min readPython3 min read
