A detailed guide on how to use AWS Lambda with gRPC Protobufs. — This article explains how to use AWS Lambda with gRPC Protobufs. Before diving deep into the implementation details, here are brief descriptions of AWS Lambda and gRPC. AWS Lambda — Lambda is also known as Function as a Service(FAAS) or simply “Serverless”. This service by AWS lets users define a…

Note: This is part 1 of many part series, that I’m currently working on. Divvy is a Chicago based Bike Sharing Program offered by Lyft. People can rent bikes(cycles) from a Station, travel, and dock it back at the destination station. Users will be charged based on usage. Impact of COVID Like all…

I published my first Open Source Python Library — PyCalendly to PyPI three days back! So here’s the story… Recently, For one of my projects I had to incorporate an appointment booking feature with the existing system. Since we had a very tight deadline, we decided to go with a…

An effective way to survive the wrath of a Competitive Environment — A controversial yet essential technique to stabilize and strengthen our company, career, and even our relationship. This technique has been ripped off from the pages of the US Military Handbook! and I tweaked it a bit here and there, to better fit our practical needs. Escaping the Myopic bubble: Kill to Save? It might…

Adding powerful widgets to GitHub Profile README — This is a two-part blog, and if you haven't read the first part, check it out here: Creating GitHub README for Students (Part1). This article covers some of the free open-source widgets that you can use in your GitHub profile to make it more appealing and add more informative. This…

I recently created my GitHub Profile README and it is one of the most useful features in GitHub. This isn't just any bio section, as one in LinkedIn. Profile README supports Markdown! …

My US F1 Student Visa Interview Experience — I’m an incoming graduate student joining MS in Computer Science in Spring’21 in the United States. This article details my visa experience and my preparations. If you are an aspiring student and curious to know how other visa interviews took place, go ahead and read this article, this can be…

Step by step guide to building a Deep Neural Network that classifies Images of Dogs and Cats. — Content Structure Part 1: 1. Problem definition and Goals 2. Brief introduction to Concepts & Terminologies 3. Building a CNN Model Part 2: 4. Training and Validation 5. Image Augmentation 6. Predicting Test images 7. Visualizing intermediate CNN layers Problem Definition and Goals Goal: Build a Convolutional Neural Network that efficiently classifies images of Dogs…