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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
Santhosh Kumar
Aug 22
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).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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?
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…
Shreyas Sridhar
May 30, 2021
AWS Athena or AWS Redshift. What’s right for you?
AWS Athena or AWS Redshift. What’s right for you?
Comparing AWS Athena and AWS Redshift, to see what’s right for your usecase
Ashish Kumar
Apr 25, 2021
How to build Serverless API using Lambda Integration?
How to build Serverless API using Lambda Integration?
This blog explains how one can use AWS API Gateway along with AWS Lambda to create server-less API within short span of time.
Debolina
Apr 18, 2021
Triggering Airflow DAG From Google Sheet
Triggering Airflow DAG From Google Sheet
Triggering Airflow DAG from Google Sheet will help you to easily automate your workflows which are initiated from a spreadsheet.
Aswath K
Apr 4, 2021
Best Ways of Detecting Language of Text in Python
Best Ways of Detecting Language of Text in Python
Recently I worked on a project where I wanted to label the language for each social media comments that we had.
Akshith Pejavar
Feb 21, 2021
Data Engineering and Neutronian Certification
Data Engineering and Neutronian Certification
When purchasing third-party data, the buyers are placing a high level of trust in its provider. Without standardized measurements, the…
Vivek Vijayan
Jan 7, 2021
How to enable Private Networking across AWS Accounts?
How to enable Private Networking across AWS Accounts?
We used to have a web application, database running in a single AWS account. After that requirement come to migrate the Web Application to…
Santhosh Kumar
Dec 11, 2020
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