engineering
(37)Setting up my new MacBook Pro from scratch
17 Nov 2024  ·  5 min  ·  engineering misc
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
03 Nov 2024  ·  10 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production leadership
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
08 Sep 2024  ·  8 min  ·  learning engineering python 🛠
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
27 Jun 2024  ·  2 min  ·  llm engineering production
Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails.
31 May 2024  ·  2 min  ·  llm engineering production leadership
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12 May 2024  ·  1 min  ·  llm engineering production leadership
How unit testing machine learning code differs from typical software practices
25 Feb 2024  ·  6 min  ·  machinelearning engineering python
Evals, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails, and collecting feedback; all that good stuff.
09 Oct 2023  ·  17 min  ·  llm engineering production
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
30 Jul 2023  ·  66 min  ·  llm engineering production 🔥
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
11 Jun 2023  ·  6 min  ·  llm engineering 🛠
9 patterns including HITL, hard mining, reframing, cascade, data flywheel, business rules layer, and more.
23 Apr 2023  ·  20 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production recsys
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
02 Oct 2022  ·  14 min  ·  recsys engineering production
Invited keynote at the Workshop for Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling (ORSUM)
23 Sep 2022  ·  2 min  ·  recsys engineering production
Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
04 Sep 2022  ·  19 min  ·  engineering machinelearning production 🩷
Pushing back on the cult of complexity.
14 Aug 2022  ·  10 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production 🔥
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31 Jul 2022  ·  10 min  ·  python engineering 🔥
Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended.
12 Jun 2022  ·  13 min  ·  machinelearning engineering python 🔥
How they differ and why they work better in different situations.
20 Mar 2022  ·  7 min  ·  engineering productivity misc
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
06 Mar 2022  ·  7 min  ·  datascience engineering productivity
Breaking it into offline vs. online environments, and candidate retrieval vs. ranking steps.
27 Jun 2021  ·  13 min  ·  teardown production engineering recsys 🔥
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
07 Mar 2021  ·  15 min  ·  writing machinelearning engineering
Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them.
28 Feb 2021  ·  10 min  ·  writing engineering productivity 🩷 🔥
Access, serving, integrity, convenience, autopilot; use what you need.
21 Feb 2021  ·  19 min  ·  teardown machinelearning engineering 🔥
What the top teams did to win the 36-hour data hackathon. No, not machine learning.
14 Feb 2021  ·  6 min  ·  datascience engineering misc
A personal take on their deliverables and skills, and what it means for the industry and your team.
08 Nov 2020  ·  11 min  ·  datascience machinelearning engineering career
What questions do they answer? How do they compare? What open-source solutions are available?
25 Oct 2020  ·  16 min  ·  teardown datascience engineering 🔥
Checking for correct implementation, expected learned behaviour, and satisfactory performance.
06 Sep 2020  ·  14 min  ·  machinelearning engineering python
Updating our FastAPI app to let users select options and download results.
05 Aug 2020  ·  3 min  ·  engineering python til
I couldn't find any guides on serving HTML with FastAPI, thus I wrote this to plug the hole on the internet.
23 Jul 2020  ·  3 min  ·  engineering python til 🔥
I wanted to add my recent writing to my GitHub Profile README but was too lazy to do manual updates.
11 Jul 2020  ·  3 min  ·  engineering python til
After this article, we'll have a workflow of tests and checks that run automatically with each git push.
21 Jun 2020  ·  20 min  ·  engineering production python productivity 🔥
A curious discussion made me realize my expert blind spot. And no, Airflow is not late.
17 Jun 2020  ·  3 min  ·  engineering production til
Can maintaining machine learning in production be easier? I go through some practical tips.
25 May 2020  ·  16 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production
I thought deploying machine learning was hard. Then I had to maintain multiple systems in prod.
18 May 2020  ·  14 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15 Dec 2019  ·  7 min  ·  omscs learning engineering
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
03 Oct 2019  ·  3 min  ·  machinelearning engineering leadership
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
13 Aug 2017  ·  5 min  ·  omscs learning engineering
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