Due to an anomaly on our frontend, over 500k objects had been uploaded to an AWS bucket without the correct content-type. Keeping the non-mutable nature of S3 objects in mind, and constraint of retaining the same link, here’s how I fixed this anomaly through a python script built on top of boto3.
A highly scalable notification micro-service which can be configured within minutes to send notifications on WhatsApp, SMS and Email.
SQS stands for Simple Queuing Service – an offering from AWS which is simple to use, highly scalable to build upon and reliable. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up SQS for queueing and consumption from NodeJS.
Hamming’s last lecture was dense with bits of wisdom, and I agree in principle with most of the points that he raised in his attempt to define both success, and a path to success. There is though some contradiction in what he proposes and some bias in his definition of success and an ‘ideal’ life, but he’s allowed the liberty of biases owing to his age and immense experience at the frontiers of success.
Link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
A guide to load balancing your TFServing Inference API over multiple GPUs.
I don’t believe enough has been written towards understanding how software products are and should be versioned. I have always meant to read through proper documentation and understand semantic versioning but have procrastinated furiously. Today though, I took out the time to go through the documentation and I am writing this post to summarize what I’ve understood. Let this be a tldr; for the next project you’re going to release, and how you’re planning to version it.
I am glad to inform you that our paper on clickbait in mainstream Hindi News Media has been accepted at the International Conference on Natural Language and Processing - 2020. You can find the abstract of the work we’ve done here, and the full paper is up on arxiv.
In this post we look at two food delivery applications with an established duopoly in the Indian market - Swiggy and Zomato. Specifically, we do a usability study on their mobile app available for usage on android devices. The 336 point Nielsen Norman Group’s guidelines on mobile app usability is used as a metric for the evaluation of both these apps. Additionally, we also conduct a user study (n=66) to understand user demographic and user perception of both Swiggy and Zomato. Swiggy performs slightly better in our user survey, whereas Zomato scores higher on Nielsen Norman Group’s usability guidelines. Though the sample size and methodology inhibits us from drawing strong conclusions, further studies must be conducted for the same.
A clickbait can roughly be defined as an article/webpage that purposefully conceals information from the user in its title link in order to generate artificial ‘information gaps’ that arise curiosity and make people click on the article link – hereby generating traffic and in turn revenue for the creator of the clickbait. Clickbait isn’t a new concept. It has been around ever since journalism gained mass popularity. Newspapers have been known to compete with each other for readership, and use curiosity enticing article headings all the way back in the 1800s.
MLFlow is an open-source platform for managing your machine learning lifecycle. You can either run MLFlow locally on your system, or host an MLFlow Tracking server, which allows for mutiple people to log models and store them remotely in a model repository for quick deployment/reuse.
In this article, I’ll tell you how to deploy MLFlow on a remote server using Docker, an S3 storage container of your choice Minio or Ceph and SQL SQLite or MySQL.