First up, Celery is an open-source Python library which is used to run the tasks asynchronously. A simple use case is where you need to run a webserver and a compute intensive process on the same machine. The compute intensive process can hold up the entire machine leading the webserver to crash and denial of […]
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Async multi-threading in python (celery)
Python is not really known as a language for servers. However the community simply refuses to die down and will force fit python into everything. In the pythonic way, great libraries are written to support all kinds of functionalities. Today am going in a rabbit hole to figure out the way to do asynchronous programming […]
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Books I read in 2022
In my own contribution to the fashion du jour, listing down the (mostly) written words that absorbed my attention in the year gone by. In no particular order except what my memory serves Ponniyin Selvan – Book 1: Got me interested from the movie and began diving into the book. Discovered the movie doesn’t do […]
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The beauty of code
UBS trading desk – Before and After automation The world is getting increasingly divided between 2 sets of people or between haves and have nots guys who can code and guys who can’t . There used to be a time when coding actually was very esoteric when you you had to learn some fairly complicated […]
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Is my startup investible now?
If you try to raise money before you can convince investors, you’ll not only waste your time, but also burn your reputation with those investors. — Paul Graham, How to raise money Summary of post- Startups need to have a spike in Idea+Team OR product OR Traction OR an aggregate spike combining all of the three to […]
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Eight lessons I learnt from my startup
Was going through some old documents and came across a note I had written to myself when I was just shutting down my startup a year back. Usually when the ink dries, you find it was colored with emotions of the time. However find these points to be as relevant as ever for me. For […]
Woke up to a rude morning shock of passing away of Tony Hsieh, the ex-founder of Zappos who sold his company to Amazon for a billion dollars. This is particularly personal for me because Tony and Zappos where inspirations when working in the customer experience department of Myntra His book “Delivering happiness” is required reading […]
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Thank you for applying to YCombinator
Thank you for applying to Y Combinator. Your application looks promising and we’d like to meet you in person…See you in California! Twice a year, thousands of entrepreneurs are glued to their email in anticipation of these magic words. Our team was fortunate to receive them, not once but twice, over last year. YC deadline […]
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Vedak YCombinator S17 Application
This is Vedak’s application which led to the final interview invite Gig platform for industry experts Vedak will build the most reliable platform to hire industry experts for short assignments. Currently industries have difficulty finding right experts at right prices to solve specific problems. E.g. Setting up of a dairy plant requires specialised skills for […]
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Vedak YCombinator W18 application
This is the application which got us to the final round the second time in the same year Gig platform for industry experts We are building a (1) One stop shop for hiring industry experts for consultatons with (2) service levels of high cost expert networks like GLG at much lower prices made possible by […]