Apache Spark - Can it be lupus?
Hmm...so you're trying to diagnose problems in your Spark Job and can't seem to make progress? I've been there. Working with Spark is similar to working wit...
Posts by Year
2015
Monolithic Repo vs Micro Repos
Recently, I have been working with a single repo which had the entire codebase of the company. It was basically a hierarchial maven project with each service...
Deep Learning
As part of the final project for COMS W4772: Advance Machine Learning, a course I took at Columbia University during Spring 2015, my friend Rhea and I were ...
My Internship Experience
The first career fair I ever attended in Columbia was somewhere around October 17, 2015. It was an interesting experience to say the least. There was so muc...
Interesting Papers from Cloud & Big Data
One of courses that I took in Columbia, with a really good course content, was Cloud and Big Data. I took the course in Fall '14 and TA'ed it in Spring '15....
My Personal Iron Blogger
I noticed one of my friends had joined Iron blogger. The idea is that you write a blog post every week. If you miss a week, you add $5 to a common pool. Eve...
Tryst With Destiny
Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe that things that are meant to happen, will happen, regardless of what you do? Does fate decide the course of your l...
Using Multiple Heat Layers with Google Maps
For one of the assignments in Cloud & Big Data course at Columbia University, we had to display a Heat Map Layer showing positive and negative tweets fro...
2014
Moving from WordPress to Github
So...the look and feel of the blog changed. For the good, I hope! Basically my GoDaddy web hosting expired and they deleted all the content that was hosted ...
Let’s just live for today!
I'm don't know the actual source of this poem so can't give proper credit for this. If you know where this verse is from, please reach out to me so I can lin...
MariaDB seconds behind issue fixed
We (my friend Vishnu and I) had reported a bug with MariaDB 10.0.4. Just got an update that the issue is fixed now! Here are the details about the bug: We ha...
Slash n is back!
Mark your calendar, folks. Come March 7, 2014, Flipkart's technology conference is back and it's bigger than ever. This year’s slash n theme is ‘Intelligence...
Three most significant things you have learnt till date
Write down the three most significant things you have learnt till date.
Serving static content with Dropwizard
Dropwizard, in its own words is a "Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services". It is extremely lightweight, stable a...
MySQL Partial Replication
A couple of folks have asked me to elaborate more on partial replication. What is the use of replicating only certain tables? Can you add/remove tables/db to...
Mysql Replication from an existing slave
So you want to add another slave to an existing mysql replication environment? There are multiple ways to do this. First option, as mentioned in the mysql ...
Resolutions 2014!
Resolutions. Hard to make, harder to keep. How are your resolutions holding up? Here is a quick update on mine. Read More Leisure: Last year I made a resol...
2013
Some Inspiring Commencement Speeches
David Foster Wallace 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Speech - This is Water. By far one of the best commencement speech ever. It talks about something so ba...
Let there be light!
Hello Bloggers! Let me start by telling you what took so long for the first post to come up! After registering with GoDaddy for the domain, I've been waiting...