You make the team
We talk about great teams and great companies as if their excellence is something you inherit by joining them. As if the quality lives out there and all you need to do is step in for you to become excellent.
Aditya Relangi
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Thinking beyond the ask
In large organizations, work often arrives already shaped in the form of a ticket, a feature spec or a defined task. Each team owns a slice: product defines, engineering builds, analysts measure, ML tunes. It keeps things moving, but it also narrows how we think.
Krakow, Poland
I reached Krakow around noon on Monday, May 4th. The flight from Frankfurt was short and the view from above wasn’t anything special.
Feh - A Memoir by Shalom Auslander - Review
Shalom Auslander’s Feh is a masterpiece of wit, despair, and, surprisingly, hope. It stands out as one of the most impactful books I’ve read in recent memory.
DFW Lions
“I’ve got to be honest, you probably won’t get batting.” That was my first introduction to Lions. I was filling in an empty spot in the 11 just before the day of the game.
Quotes
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
Change Data Capture –> Kafka –> Go Consumer –> Apache Ignite –> Zeppelin
Setting up a realtime reporting framework with MySQL, Kafka Connect, Apache Kafka, Golang Consumer, Apache Ignite, Apache Zeppelin
Deleting Linkedin
This week I decided to delete Linkedin. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, but haven’t had the courage to do it. Nothing changed as such except me deciding to bite the bullet.
2018 - Goals
Alright, here are some goals for 2018.
On Blockchains
I think blockchains are a really important technology and are going to change the way applications are built. A lot of people have been trying to understand what they mean and whether they are missing out on all the cryptocoin boom. This meant I’ve spent quite some time trying to explain how these things work to a lot of people. Given that there’s a lot of content that does a good job of…