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Ramanan Balakrishnan

Ramanan Balakrishnan

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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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
engineering

Real-time analytics using Postgres

Build you a faster dashboard for great good.

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
5 min read
engineering

A simplified guide to gRPC in Python

Get rolling with gRPC in minutes

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
2 min read

You can build it, doesn’t mean they will want it.

Just ship it. Launch fast and iterate. Done is better than perfect.

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read

The hidden costs of delivering customer worthy software

“It just works” — if only things were that simple when building software.

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
4 min read
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…

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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…

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
2 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
4 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
1 min read
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.

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
2 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
1 min read
engineering

HariNet awakens

Followers of The Ecommerce Intelligencer might already be familiar with Hari, who leads our business development team. Some of his greatest…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
8 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
5 min read
engineering

Measuring application performance for great good

In Numbers We Trust

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
4 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
3 min read
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…

  • Ramanan Balakrishnan
    Ramanan Balakrishnan
1 min read
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…

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    Ramanan Balakrishnan
1 min read
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