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How is Google Guava ListenableFuture better than Java Future?

Google Guava’s concurrency classes provide some advantages over using Java’s default classes. Guava’s Futures offer the following benefits: You can … More

concurrency, Java

The feel of Java, and Go

In an article titled The Feel of Java (PDF), James Gosling, one of the language’s creators, explains the design choices … More

Go, Java

Lessons learnt building data pipelines — 1

It has been a few years since I embarked on what was then trendily called “data engineering”. That title — and the … More

Big Data, Data Engineering

Influential books I read in the last 2 years

Either I’ve become way better at choosing which books to read, or am able to get more out of reading … More

Book Recommendations, Books, Productivity

NIPS 2017 is exciting even if you don’t work in AI

I found out about the just concluded NIPS 2017 conference through a mention on my Twitter timeline. I’d heard this … More

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Nips2017

An unbeatable perk of the Bay Area: its meetups and conferences

One unbeatable perk of living in the San Francisco Bay Area is the sheer number and variety of technical events … More

Bay Area, Meetup, Tech

What if your text editor spoke Kafka?

If you work in enterprise software long enough, you may end up only looking at software that satisfies complex constraints: … More

Apache Kafka

Rocking it with Docker and Metaparticle

My friend Asad messaged me from the ongoing KubeCon 2017 that a keynote slide from Brendan Burns (one of the … More

Docker

Notes from Hadoop Summit 2016

This was my first time attending a Hadoop Summit (thanks to my employer Yahoo for sponsoring!). I had a very … More

Big Data, Hadoop

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