ravibhatt

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by ravibhatt 8mo ago
Hi HN, I built BrickCheck because I got tired of having 20 tabs open every time I found a house I liked. I wanted to see the actual data (crime rates, internet speeds, school ratings) right next to the listing, without jumping between diffe
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Show HN: Brickcheck.io – A website to replace my property search spreadsheets(brickcheck.io)
1 points by ravibhatt 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ravibhatt 8mo ago
http://www.xmsxmx.com - blog on things I find interesting and do.
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by ravibhatt 6y ago
None of his previous work is on the subject of freedom and democracy btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumit_Ganguly
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by ravibhatt 6y ago
You seem to know more about the natives it seems; where are you quoting this from? "Indian nationalism is all about bringing back the "varna system" " ---- You have done a Phd in the subject-- any links?
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by ravibhatt 6y ago
Previous govt had huge concerns as well. PM Singh said "The atomic energy programme has gone into difficulties because these NGOs [non-governmental organisations], mostly I think based in the United States, don't appreciate the ne
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by ravibhatt 6y ago
Every provider has their own walled garden. Several offerings just tie companies to the vendor. For example, with AWS - services like ECS, EKS or even Redshift go very well with the AWS ecosystem. Try getting data into Redshift for example.
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by ravibhatt 6y ago
There is no doubt that AWS is more mature. You make few points: - poor documentation - no security auditing tool - API limits. In my experience 1 and 3 are true for AWS as well. AWS has automated tools to detect things but to say that GCP
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Why would one choose GCP over other cloud providers?(xmsxmx.com)
6 points by ravibhatt 6y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: How to answer Enterprise Architecture interview questions?
1 points by ravibhatt 6y ago|0 comments
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Spark SQL: A data skew story(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 8y ago|0 comments
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Spark SQL is easy, until it is not(xmsxmx.com)
3 points by ravibhatt 8y ago|0 comments
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by ravibhatt 8y ago
It is amazing to see how we declare something as too obvious or natural. Like trunk based development, so obvious that questioning it makes one a fool :-) Git and its model was the best thing few years back. Now since google is doing all it
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by ravibhatt 8y ago
At least on two occasions i have seen configuration as literal code (like in config as java, scala, python code). While config as code could be beneficial, using it as literal code is not optimal.
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Configuration as Code(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 8y ago|1 comments
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by ravibhatt 9y ago
Interesting discussion here. Excellent post. If coding is such an art and so important to the industry, why are all people at the top do not have a git hub account to show? They must still be "passionate" about coding, no? Or is i
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by ravibhatt 9y ago
5K is 5K for Americans as well, as per Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5K_run
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Running 0 to 5K, took me 4 Years(xmsxmx.com)
3 points by ravibhatt 9y ago|3 comments
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by ravibhatt 11y ago
yes, do not take a 1-2 year contract on a low rate. But mathematically: Lets say: Desired rate: 150 Available rate: 100 Sit idle for desired rate: 30 days (20 working days in a month) let's say a contract is 2 months long. with 100 d
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by ravibhatt 11y ago
Adding my two cents. I have been a contractor for almost 3 years now. My personal opinion: - Contracting pays a lot more than a perm role. - You do not deal with politics, which is a major plus for me. - You do not hear about you not gettin
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How hadoop ecosystem allows great interoperability(xmsxmx.com)
2 points by ravibhatt 11y ago|0 comments
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Millions of records, Sub second response time: Hello Elasticsearch (xmsxmx.com)
2 points by ravibhatt 12y ago|0 comments
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by ravibhatt 12y ago
I can give some point here: (A cluster below is hadoop cluster) - Machines reboot without any notifications. - Blob storage gets throttled ( i was told by a support staff) and at times become unreachable. - Some clusters i create, go int
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by ravibhatt 12y ago
Well, the world does not move on ideal conditions. I have used AWS and Azure extensively. My use case has been mainly around hadoop ecosystem. Here is what happens on azure(HDInsights Specifically): You have a cluster running, that does som
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Why Windows HDInsights is going nowhere(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 13y ago|0 comments
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Tools of the trade: Vi Plugins, Powerline(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 13y ago|0 comments
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Impala and Mysql: Comparing apples to oranges(xmsxmx.com)
2 points by ravibhatt 13y ago|0 comments
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The Dependency Injection Debate(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 14y ago|0 comments
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Real time processing system comparion matrix(xmsxmx.com)
1 points by ravibhatt 14y ago|0 comments
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Creating hadoop cluster in amazon VPC(xmsxmx.com)
2 points by ravibhatt 14y ago|0 comments

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