Engineering

Update I have been useing the udpated zsh for a while and went through a new Macbook setup process again recently, i relized that iTerm2 is not something mandatory. The minimal set up that i found useful and efficient are: zsh (default for new Mac) oh-my-zsh plugins: git (default plugin for oh-my-zsh) zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting theme: powerlevel10k Detailed Installation Guide Tip: powerlevel10k theme requires special fonts that can be installed via brew. ...

The Current CI/CD tooling for our company is moving away from Jenkins and towards GitHub Actions. Learn some basics about GitHub Actions as a reulst. What’s Git Actions According to Github: GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline. You can create workflows that run tests whenever you push a change to your repository, or that deploy merged pull requests to production. ...

Infrastructure as Code Challenge of Provisioning Cloud Resources Manual Provisioning of infrastructure at scale is slow and cumbersome. Provisioning infrastructure through point-and-click GUIs is error-prone, inefficient, and doesn’t scale. The cloud was built for automation, but writing custom scripts for every service and every use case is time-consuming and costly for development teams. Solution Infrastructure as Code(IaC) to automate infrastructure provisioning on any cloud. Multi-cloud provisioning should be automated with declarative infrastructure as code. There should be a simple, easy to learn configuration language to allow people to define infrastructure resources such that infrastructure can be codified, shared, versioned, and executed with a consistent workflow across all environments. ...

SSL Certificate Securing your website or application has become increasingly crucial in today’s digital landscape where cyber crimes become ever more pervasive. One common way to achieve security is through encryption. Symmetric and asymmetric encryption have been heavily studied in the field of Cryptograph and are widely used in the industry to help secure digital systems. SSL certificates, which build on top of asymmetric encryption, are often used to secure websites by ensuring data in transit between clients and web server are encrypted, thus private and secure. ...

What is FastAPI? According to its official website, FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.8+ based on standard Python type hints. Hello World with FastAPI Installation Requirements Python3.8+ Install FastAPI 1 pip install fastapi Install ASGI Server 1 pip install "uvicorn[standard]" Define a FastAPI app Create a file main.py with: 1 2 3 4 5 from typing import Union from fastapi import FastAPI app = FastAPI() Create API Endpoints In main.py add the following 2 endpoints implementation ...

Kafka Introduction Apache Kafka is heavily used in my work now. Therefore, I thought it would be useful and helpful to write a post about it. Kafka is an event streaming platform. Apache Kafka defines event streaming as the following: Technically speaking, event streaming is the practice of capturing data in real-time from event sources like databases, sensors, mobile devices, cloud services, and software applications in the form of streams of events; storing these event streams durably for later retrieval; manipulating, processing, and reacting to the event streams in real-time as well as retrospectively; and routing the event streams to different destination technologies as needed. Event streaming thus ensures a continuous flow and interpretation of data so that the right information is at the right place, at the right time. ...

Python is a popular programming language, especially in scripting, web development, data analytics, and ML/AI domains. According to TIOBE Programming Language Index, Python has become the most popular programming since 2022, exceeding good old C: Python has gained popularity because of its flat learning curve (compared to other languages such as C/C++), human-readable code, and thriving ecosystems. However, Developers have always complained about python not being fast or even slower than other interpreting languages like JS or Lua. ...

The Turing test has been an essential and influential concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence ever since Alan Turing introduced the test in 1950 to test whether a machine is intelligent. The Turing test itself is simple, but the underlying reasoning process of Turing is profound. Thinking vs. Acting Can machines think? If computers can reason, how can we tell? Are trees intelligent? Can they think as well? How can we tell? ...