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ad:tech New Delhi 2025 through the eyes of a Data Engineer

ad:tech New Delhi 2025 through the eyes of a Data Engineer

A Data Engineer’s account of the largest ad-tech event in India.
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Vivek Vijayan
Mar 17
Nothing earth shattering in Engineering at Affinity Answers in 2024

Nothing earth shattering in Engineering at Affinity Answers in 2024

How we managed navigate through the Engineering challenges in 2024
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Vivek Vijayan
Dec 27, 2024
Why Next.js was ideal for our AI chat interface?

Why Next.js was ideal for our AI chat interface?

Why we created custom AI interface and not use Open WebUI
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Lakshay Batra
Dec 24, 2024
Gen AI in a (Ad-Tech) Data Company

Gen AI in a (Ad-Tech) Data Company

Journey to build a revenue bot that helps our internal team in analysing revenue reports from various streams
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Ashish Kumar
Dec 24, 2024
From Shell Script to Spark: Lessons in Scaling Data Processing

From Shell Script to Spark: Lessons in Scaling Data Processing

Data Engineer’s first hand report in finding the ideal solution for processing data at scale.
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Swapna Kategaru
Dec 24, 2024
Tailored Data Solutions: Adapting to Diverse Partner Requirements

Tailored Data Solutions: Adapting to Diverse Partner Requirements

Framework to handle different variety of data with varying volumes
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Santhosh Kumar
Dec 22, 2024
Series of small improvements in Data Pipeline saved 20% compute cost

Series of small improvements in Data Pipeline saved 20% compute cost

How strategic usage of AWS spot instances and improved algo saved compute time and cost for a massive data pipeline
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Santhosh Kumar
Aug 22, 2024
How to Manage A Deluge of Data Privacy Requests

How to Manage A Deluge of Data Privacy Requests

How we at Affinity Answers handled a deluge of Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR).
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Kavitha
Dec 26, 2023
Transitioning from self-hosted to AWS managed workflows for Apache Airflow

Transitioning from self-hosted to AWS managed workflows for Apache Airflow

We’re a small group of data engineers and our data workflows comprises of ~30 Airflow DAGs which drives the core of our operations. As…
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Swapna Kategaru
Dec 21, 2023
Demystifying authentication flows in React

Demystifying authentication flows in React

As a Front End Engineer at AffinityAnswers, I handle authentication in various products. For complex projects, we rely on external…
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Lakshay Batra
Nov 28, 2023
API Load Testing for enterprise app with Python based Locust

API Load Testing for enterprise app with Python based Locust

In 2021 while developing the enterprise application for Affinity Data+ we did functional testing which will ensure that the application is…
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Debolina
Feb 8, 2023
How we Achieved a 2x Reduction in Data Processing Costs

How we Achieved a 2x Reduction in Data Processing Costs

The above chart clearly shows that in the past few months our data processing cost significantly reduced from something like $20 per…
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Ashish Kumar
Feb 1, 2023
Using Probability Modeling and the Beta-Binomial Distribution to Estimate Heavy and Light Users…

Using Probability Modeling and the Beta-Binomial Distribution to Estimate Heavy and Light Users…

At Affinity Answers we help restaurants turn data into action with our offering, the Restaurant Insider. The primary source of data for the…
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Kyle
Jan 16, 2023
From a big box to small connected blocks: experience of migration to a microservices architecture

From a big box to small connected blocks: experience of migration to a microservices architecture

At AffinityAnswers, our flagship product, Intersect, was a legacy application that is critical for business. Over a period of several…
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Santhosh Kumar
Dec 23, 2022
Integrating Slack alerts and Apache Superset for better data observability

Integrating Slack alerts and Apache Superset for better data observability

Data Engineering at Affinity Answers handles data from close to 10 heterogeneous data sources processing upwards of 2 billion records per…
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Kavitha
Nov 28, 2022
Using Secrets Manager to manage your secrets

Using Secrets Manager to manage your secrets

Affinity Answers’ secrets are safe with AWS Secrets Manager, how about yours?
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Ashish Kumar
Aug 22, 2022
Nitpicking DatePickers — An OnTrack Enhancement Study

Nitpicking DatePickers — An OnTrack Enhancement Study

Chronicles of the seemingly ‘simple’ DatePicker enhancement made on OnTrack keeping the UX optimal
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Abhay Korti
Aug 18, 2022
How we found application bottlenecks with AWS X-Ray

How we found application bottlenecks with AWS X-Ray

Load testing tells you if there is a problem with an application as a whole. AWS X-Ray helps to figure out where the problem is.
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Debolina
Jul 18, 2022
Improving Web Performance with Event Delegation

Improving Web Performance with Event Delegation

When your application has tiles that can be individually clicked, attaching click event listener to every item would be sub-optimal.
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Lakshay Batra
Jun 28, 2022
JSON on S3-Athena : an optimization experience

JSON on S3-Athena : an optimization experience

In Data Engineering, querying your data is way more than just writing a SELECT query. It must be cost and performance optimised
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Swapna Kategaru
May 31, 2022
How to Upload Images to your S3 Bucket through just their URLs on Appsmith

How to Upload Images to your S3 Bucket through just their URLs on Appsmith

Low-code tool Appsmith can accept images as input. But can it accept image URLs which needs to be uploaded to AWS S3?
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abhik varma
Dec 13, 2021
Data Overflow: Data Programming Contest

Data Overflow: Data Programming Contest

A contest for Data Engineers and those who aspire to be one. Not for the faint hearted!
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Vivek Vijayan
Dec 6, 2021
Recruitment: How not to answer our take-home questions

Recruitment: How not to answer our take-home questions

Common mistakes candidates make that results in them not making the cut.
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Vivek Vijayan
Nov 14, 2021
The Falcon Web Framework — Should You Use It?

The Falcon Web Framework — Should You Use It?

Falcon is a web framework that can be used instead of Flask, Bottle and Django. Should you be using it?
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Shreyas Sridhar
Aug 11, 2021
Why Parallelism In Python Pandas May Be Hurting The Performance Of Your Programs

Why Parallelism In Python Pandas May Be Hurting The Performance Of Your Programs

Python Pandas is a very popular and powerful tool used in data analysis and manipulation. We at AffinityAnswers use it extensively in Data…
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Shreyas Sridhar
May 30, 2021
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