engineering Engineering tales from Semantics3–2017 edition 2017 is fast drawing to a close. Holiday schedules, long-planned vacations, family gatherings and slower days. There is just something in…
engineering Towards better code Let’s face it, we have have been writing software for decades now. We can no longer claim to be a new domain and pass-off nascency as an…
You can build it, doesn’t mean they will want it. Just ship it. Launch fast and iterate. Done is better than perfect.
The hidden costs of delivering customer worthy software “It just works” — if only things were that simple when building software.
engineering Measure twice, cut once — Questions before starting with machine learning With many articles promoting machine learning as the magic bullet to solve tough problems, the pressure has never been higher for data…
engineering Sömma “Hacks The World” at ABInBev Following their pursuit of hackathons, team Sömma from Semantics3 got the band back together for the ABInBev HackTheWorld hackathon, last…
engineering Engineering tales from Semantics3–2016 edition Back in October, I had written about our team’s pull crew for hacking on open source projects. I had meant to write a review of the various…
engineering Moving machine learning from practice to production With growing interest in neural networks and deep learning, individuals and companies are claiming ever-increasing adoption rates of…
engineering Code for Hacktoberfest October usually marks the start of fall and inevitably also brings with it a festive mood. During this period, one of the events that I…
engineering The instance is dead, long live the instance Spot instances are among the most valuable tools for anyone looking to deploy lean-mean computing machines.
engineering GPU-enabled EC2 instance for deep learning As a team which builds data-powered software for ecommerce-focussed companies, we are always on the lookout for incorporating new…
engineering Sömma at Sequoia::Hack 2016 Over the past weekend, Semantics3 had a strong showing at the annual hackathon conducted by Sequoia Capital at Bengaluru. With four of our…
engineering HariNet awakens Followers of The Ecommerce Intelligencer might already be familiar with Hari, who leads our business development team. Some of his greatest…
engineering Return of the vacuum In our previous story about Postgres, we had discussed how freezing transaction IDs was required to fight the transaction ID wraparound…
engineering An unexpected journey, a DBA’s tale One of our favorite databases for maintaining data at scale is Postgres. Being a data-centric business, we have come to rely heavily on the…
engineering Haaaave you met Watty? We have never thought twice about building internal tools here at Semantics3. Thanks to our engineering roots (all three of our founders…
engineering Towards a prettier git status Using a version control system is almost always a good idea, and at Semantics3, git has proven to a life-saver many times over. Given our…
engineering Getting beyond those pesky iptables rules Most of the development here at Semantics3 occurs on a shared development machine hosted at AWS. While this helps us control our dev…
