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 ...

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...

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. Olla...

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 de...

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 wher...

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 20...

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...

Overview Duration: 1 Have you ever been in a situation where you had to qualitatively analyse a large amount of data on a spreadsheet and you wished for someone to take away your pain? With Google's Gemini running directly in your Google Sheets you c...

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...

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...

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 envi...

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 executio...

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...

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 ...

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 differ...

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...

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...

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, ha...

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 i...

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 thin...

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-d...

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@...

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 a...

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...

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 ...

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? Dit...