Preparing for the Data Role

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

Let’s talk about Internet Advertisements

“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

Google Cloud Platform

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

Hadoop and Spark – Big Data Technologies

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

All You Need To Know About Kubernetes!

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!

Virtual Machines, Containers, and Dockers

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

Computers & Me

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