Writings

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Commit Your Code conference, where I presented my talk, “The Modern Full-Stack: Owning Your Deployment Pipeline.” The core idea was to challenge our definition of what it means to be a “full-stack” developer in today’s world. For too long, we’ve defined full-stack as proficiency in front-end and back-end development. But I’d argue that this leaves a massive gap. If you write code but have no visibility or ownership over how it gets to users, you are not full-stack, you are “half-stack”. ...

This website runs on Hugo and is hosted via Cloudflare Pages. The last time I wrote a post and updated this site was almost an year ago. Since then, I have been busy with the book, that I rarely got time to update this site. The book’s done, I now have time to get back to writing and maintaining this site. The first thing I had to do was to upgrade the site. ...

The productivity improvements an AI-assisted code development tool can bring to your workflow are significant. If you are not convinced, allow me to give you one recent experience of mine. Me, like many of you, have a bunch of personal projects that I work on in my spare time. I’m currently building something around AWS, using the AWS JS SDK and Next.js. In one of the pages, I want to list all the EC2 instances in my account. The table should also list the tags for each instance. But the way AWS stores tags is not very convenient to work with when you want to display them in a table. ...

I recently had the opportunity to speak at The Commit Your Code Conference in Dallas. The Commit Your Code Conference The Commit Your Code Conference is one of a kind conference where 100% of proceeds go to FreeCodeCamp and St. Jude. Here’s the excerpt from their website. 100% of all ticket sales will be donated to charity. ...

I recently had a fantastic time chatting with the folks over at This Dot Labs for their Leadership Exchange podcast. We dove deep into some really interesting topics around AI, leadership, and how we at DataNimbus are working to make AI accessible to everyone. We covered a lot of ground, but here are some highlights: We explored how my experiences have shaped my approach to leading DataNimbus, and how innovation is at the heart of our mission to democratize AI. We discussed practical applications of AI that are transforming businesses today, from creating comprehensive Customer 360 models to accurate demand forecasting – all powered by a company’s own data, within their own secure environment. We tackled the issue of “analysis paralysis” and how we help organizations confidently test and implement AI models. I highlighted how data engineering and data science teams are seeing a resurgence in demand for their skills as organizations look to build their own AI solutions. Want to hear more? Head over to the video below. ...

Google (re)enabled image creation cabaility via Gemini with their new Imagen 3. It can generate images, and you can request changes to the image through follow-up messages. I had to give it a try! 😃 Here we go! Generate a teampunk rose A martian is holding the rose The martian is surfing a big wave in hawai The wave is inside a snow globe Kratos is holding the snow globe Kratos is sitting in a boat A dog appears! ...

Last week, I had the privilege of attending a leadership meetup in Dallas organized by This Dot Labs and to be on the panel discussing the “Impact of AI on Organizations”. I was lucky enough to be in the same room with some seriously brilliant people. The discussions we had were refreshing and a big learning experience for me. What got me fascinated was the kind of applications where AI is being put to use. While I cannot disclose the specific applications discussed, the common thread was on leveraging AI to analyze and interpret vast quantities of data. ...

Recently I read an article about how Stripe built one of the best engineering teams. I have used their products and I have to admit that it’s just well built. Clean, precise and easy to use. Love their documentation too. When i came across this article I wanted to know how they built their team. What stood out for me was the section about “The Sunday Test”. The Sunday Test While other sections about treating recruiting as marketing, valuing rejection experiences, and leveraging existing engineers for talent sourcing were valuable, The Sunday Test was different. ...

Speech-to-text models are the magic behind converting spoken language into written text. From dictating documents and emails to transcribing meetings, their applications are vast. Personally, I rely on this feature to send hands-free messages and control my smart home devices. While those everyday uses are great, I recently discovered an even more powerful application for speech-to-text. When you combine speech recognition with the power of LLMs, things get really interesting. We’re talking Q&A documents, meeting summaries, and even enhancing RAG models. ...

(Yikes! broken image) Yay! figured out how to enable global images. This is my third attempt to get a website built. Tried Ghost, then Substack and then Wordpress. Nothing seems to be working. Let’s see where this goes. May be it’s not the platform. May be it’s me stuck in a writer’s block. TODO I’m yet to figure out load images on this website. For some reason referring to the images in the assests folder is not working. I have to figure that out. (3rd SEP 2024) Tags Categories Google analytics ./J