Feb 17, 2020Eulogy to my best friend from childhoodThis probably is a very late eulogy. This also means, it took me that long to find the nerve to put together words without breaking down or loosing my composure. So here goes the story of two little friends who “are” brothers (from two close families) for a lifetime. I…6 min read6 min read
Published inDockup·Aug 21, 2019How Dockup tracks online status of remote agents using Phoenix Presence“Is our agent online? Let’s ask Phoenix Presence!” Dockup is a tool that helps engineering teams spin up on-demand environments. We have a UI that talks to several agents which are installed on remote servers. The UI sends commands to these agents over WebSocket connections using Phoenix channels. What if…Elixir3 min readElixir3 min read
Published inDockup·Jul 31, 2019On-demand environments for running end-to-end tests“Be more confident about your code changes by adding end-to-end tests that run for each deployment you create on Dockup.” End-to-end testing is a technique used to verify the correctness of an application’s behavior when it works in integration with all its dependencies. …Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
Published inDockup·Jul 31, 2019How to create on-demand environments for WordPress“Spin up on-demand staging environment to test out your custom plugins and themes for WordPress” Setting up a staging environment and maintaining it for every theme/plugin project for WordPress can be very daunting. Quite often when website developers work on design implementations or content creators try to add articles to…WordPress4 min readWordPress4 min read
Published inDockup·Jul 31, 2019How to create on-demand environments for Jekyll sites“See how your Jekyll site and articles look like before you publish them.” Want to see how your site will turn out before you publish? Just open a PR on your repo and Dockup will spin up a live site for you! Assuming that you have a Jekyll blog in…Jekyll2 min readJekyll2 min read
Aug 22, 2016It’s a wrap!“To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work — Sister Mary Lauretta” Well, the Google Summer of Code 2016 is reaching its final week as I get ready to submit my work. It has been one of those best three-four months of…Machine Learning3 min readMachine Learning3 min read
Aug 9, 2016What now?“Now that the basic aim was fulfilled, what more can we work on, given there is almost half a month to GSoC Submission!” Well, as of now the phoneme transcription was done purely based on the manner the word was written and not completely based on the Speech pattern. What…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Jul 31, 2016‘He’ just recognized what I said!Yipeeee!! Well, the title says it all. The computer just recognized what I said in my Mother Tongue! A major step in the right the direction. For this to happen, I had to complete the Acoustic Model training. So then! What is Acoustic Model! Well it is a set of…Open Source2 min readOpen Source2 min read
Jul 24, 2016Developing the Language ModelFinally, I can start the work towards Milestone — 2, which is completing the development of Language Model for Malayalam. Time to completely switch to Ubuntu from here on. Why? Well, all the forums related to CMU Sphinx keep telling that they won’t monitor the reports from Windows anyways, and…Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
Jul 16, 2016Mentioning the huge contributions“ In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. — Linus Torvalds ” I have always loved the idea of Open Source and have been fortunate enough to be participating in one of the world’s best platform…Open Source3 min readOpen Source3 min read
