I have been getting a lot of messages on LinkedIn, asking me for preparation tips for Data Engineer roles. While talking to most of the candidates, I realized that they were unaware of the critical differences between the various roles in the field of Data. It’s not advisable to apply for roles blindly. In this post, I will first give you an overview of all … Continue reading Preparing for the Data Role
“Our strategy is much less about increasing the volume of ads and much more about increasing the quality of the content and the quality of the targeting to get the right content to the right people.” – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Advertisements are part of our overall online experience in the current times. There is hardly any website out there that doesn’t have ads placed … Continue reading Let’s talk about Internet Advertisements
Gun violence in the United States results in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries annually. What does the Government do to resolve or fight it? The answer is they are trying. They are taking prominent steps. But at the end of the day, they can not stop each death. They can not control a person sitting thousands of miles away from committing a crime. … Continue reading Open & Connected
NLP Research has evolved from the era of Punch cards and batch processing, in which the analysis of a sentence could take up to 7 minutes, to the era of Google and the likes of it, in which millions of webpages can be processed in less than a second. NLP has now increasingly focused on the use of new Deep Learning models. For decades, ML … Continue reading Natural Language Processing
WEEK 1 Hello All. So, this Summer I decided to do something new and wanted to read research papers so that I can enhance my knowledge and understanding of the current trends in the Industry. So, for the last week, I read these 3 Research papers on Computer Vision. I have written a summary about them, and also mentioned some of the useful links I … Continue reading Computer Vision Research
I was recently going through the endless list of Cloud Products and Services offered by Google. While reading various articles over the Internet about the comparison of GCP with its’ competitors like AWS, Azure, I came across this well-written answer over Quora. I was instantly compelled to share this with everyone, where the author has not only accurately compared the various Cloud platforms but has … Continue reading Google Cloud Platform
Apache Hadoop Hadoop is an Open Source, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant framework written in Java. Hadoop captures more than 90% of the big Data market. It efficiently processes large volumes of data on a cluster of commodity hardware. Provides an efficient framework for running jobs on multiple nodes of clusters. Cluster means a group of systems connected via LAN. The basic Hadoop programming language is Java, … Continue reading Hadoop and Spark – Big Data Technologies
Google open sourced Kubernetes project in 2014. It is a portable, extensible open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot, and is the root of governor and cybernetic. K8s is an abbreviation derived by replacing the 8 “ubernete” with “8”. Of course, containerized workflows can be complicated. … Continue reading All You Need To Know About Kubernetes!
There are tons of articles on the Internet on the topics of Containers, VMs and Dockers. While reading these articles I found that each one has mentioned one or more features about the Technology, which were not mentioned in any of the others. So, I decided to write a post on these topics, to summarize the articles that I have read and the videos I … Continue reading Virtual Machines, Containers, and Dockers
In May 2018, I finally completed my Bachelors in Computer Engineering. Four Years came to an end, and I still can’t believe it. I am now an Engineer. As a Computer Engineer, I have done some pretty wacky things during my Studies. From late night Coding, participating in 48-hour Hackathons to cramming those Computer Architecture theories a day before exams. It’s been one hell of … Continue reading Computers & Me
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