20 October, 2024
Roughly 8 months back, I wrote an article comparing the performance of Python against Golang, and the latter emerged a clear winner. I went on to explore Golang at depth and even delivered a few talks in which I leveraged the power of goroutines and channels to build demos which ...
11 July, 2024
Stuck at a problem with your newly bought printer? Or maybe your order is being shipped to another country without your consent? Like, you turned to a call-based customer support session to get it solved. Call centers have been both the frontline and the backbone of the customer...
26 June, 2024
This blog is a read-along for the repository xprilion/ollama-cloud-run which shows how to deploy various models using the Ollama API on Cloud Run, to run inference using CPU only on a serverless platform - incurring bills only when you use them. Ollama is a framework that makes ...
26 June, 2024
tl;dr - Demo: https://dataconnectdemo-x.web.app/, Github: https://github.com/xprilion/firebase-data-connect-demo At Google I/O 2024, the Firebase team announced Data Connect. In their own words - Firebase's first relational database solution for developers who want to create se...
28 April, 2024
tl;dr: This article doesn't tell you how to generate more random numbers, it asks you - do you need it? And also sort of tells you how to generate more random numbers along the way. In a world full of choices, its easy to come across situations where you would want to offload th...
23 March, 2024
tl;dr - I made a resume template that scores high on ATS systems and has become insanely popular! Since then, I have turned recruiter and finally feel confident in guiding you through resume building. How can you make your own? Learn here! When in 2019, I started working on re-d...
27 February, 2024
In 2016, when I had started learning Python, I was increasingly convinced it would be the last programming language I would learn. After countless projects created with Python, a couple of technical books written, I am now learning Golang. Why? While working on Callchimp.ai, th...
10 February, 2024
Giving personalities to your Gemini APIs via Gemini Store in Google Sheets
2 February, 2024
This blog has been written for the Hashnode Headless API Hackathon and the Gatsby + Hashnode Headless + Typescript is publicly available at - https://github.com/xprilion/gatsby-hashnode-headless Since 2019, when I switched to a minimal content layout for my website, I dreamt of ...
15 January, 2024
In the dawn of the 20th century, the quest to conquer the skies was akin to a modern space race. The central figures in this drama were the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, and a distinguished figure, Samuel Pierpont Langley. In the quiet town of Dayton, Ohio, two brothers, ...
12 May, 2023
This blog is an explanation for the code present in the github.com/xprilion/docker-python-dump-http-request-example repo. The main purpose of the repo is to create a simple HTTP server developed using Python's Flask framework, hosted in a Docker environment. The server is design...
12 April, 2023
Job scheduling is like conducting an orchestra; every task must play its part at the right time to create a harmonious symphony of efficiency. In the world of software systems, job scheduling plays a critical role in ensuring efficient task execution and harmonious resource mana...
20 November, 2022
This tutorial is an explanation of my gist Python Websockets SSL with Let's Encrypt . With the launch of HTML5 in 2008, a technology that immediately took off in popularity was WebSockets. According to W3C, the basic definition of a Websocket is - an interface that enables web a...
8 October, 2022
The average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. ~ Gartner Downtimes can be costly. During downtimes, a company may face loss of business, loss of customer trust, loss of reputation in the technical and business community, or even all of these together. Downtimes are not f...
17 May, 2022
There’s always an easy option and one that needs courage, patience and a strong will. When I was a kid, every evening, I used to go out to play in a park nearby my home. We were a good mix of kids - boys from several communities and natives of different states. One day, two new ...
25 May, 2021
9 years back, on this date, I launched a social network built from scratch. Almost a month later, I added on the same platform a search engine, again, built from scratch. The website gained almost 60,000 users and was soon among the top 1000 websites in India by Alexa traffic ra...
10 October, 2020
Memes - the nice images you see floating around literally everywhere on the Internet these days and the stuff that fuels your social media. Memes began as a source of entertainment - containing jokes and visual additions to the joke which would often add more spice to it. However...
16 September, 2020
Cassandra is a popular NoSQL database with capabilities to handle massive data by using a distributed array of commodity hardware. After a boring introduction, here's the fun part - Cassandra is a Facebook contribution to the world of Open Source, having been developed to handle ...
13 September, 2020
Hey there, hope you're well! It's been a while since I wrote something here, to my defence I wrote this tutorial about How to setup a secure, remote JupyterLab workstation on DigitalOcean. Have you not read it yet? Go ahead and explore it if you're interested in the topic! Now, m...
27 April, 2020
If you think you read the title, or maybe I typed it wrong, you're wrong in both cases. The title proposes an article about performing machine learning with the bare minimum RAM usage, and that's what this article is going to be about. You might think I am joking. Maybe that's w...
15 April, 2020
One of the coolest UI toolkit's for cross-platform applications, Flutter, a Google offering has grown rapidly in popularity over the last few years. While there are speculations about how Flutter could affect the developer ecosystem, with the under-development Fuchsia constantly ...
23 March, 2020
The world is facing an unprecedented situation with the Coronavirus outbreak. It is crucial at these times for everyone to join hands and fight the rapidly spreading virus. Computing power available to researchers is very valuable right now. Folding@Home is a project which allows...
11 January, 2020
Hi there! I realized I began sort of suddenly, talking about networks first and then a tech scholarship, while not having yet talked about how things began for me and what I believe is a good way to launch a journey in computer science. So, talking about past, eh? No really, b...
7 January, 2020
It was with a crazy smile and immense gratitude that I read through the entire mail from Google India about being awarded the Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship for the session 2019-20. An amazing and prestigious scholarship, I am really happy to have been made a part of i...
3 January, 2020
I've been often asked, why do we sometimes need to specify the IP for a program to be 0.0.0.0 in order to get it to be accessible from machines outsides the network. I shall attempt to answer the question in this post. What is 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address. It me...
24 November, 2019
Hey there! If you have visited my website in 2019 or before, you would know that my website was pretty blue and very blue. Overall, it was unexciting, and there was no fresh content on it. But did that worry me? Oh yes. So what did I do about it? Ditch PHP website $ echo "I ...