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What does logging, monitoring & observability mean in the world of devops?

What does logging, monitoring & observability mean in the world of devops?

In this blog post, we will learn the essential concepts of Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in terms of software development and…
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Omkar Kadam
Jan 23
Cloud Security Essentials — Part 2

Cloud Security Essentials — Part 2

Welcome to the final part of the Cloud Security Essentials blog where we will be discussing several tools at our disposal to prevent and…
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Omkar Kadam
Jan 9
Finding needles in a 100M+ academic data corpus — CACTUS Datathon

Finding needles in a 100M+ academic data corpus — CACTUS Datathon

Datathon — A portmanteau term made from the terms data and marathon.
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Parth Agrawal
Jan 5
Cloud Security Essentials — Part 1

Cloud Security Essentials — Part 1

Cloud security is gaining tremendous importance as more and more businesses move their operations to the cloud. While the cloud offers…
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Omkar Kadam
Jan 4
Meet Parth, our AI evangelist!

Meet Parth, our AI evangelist!

Parth works to integrate AI solutions into our products to help researchers in their publication journey. Read on to know more:
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Anagha Natraj
Aug 10, 2022
Meet Kunal, our Engineering team lead!

Meet Kunal, our Engineering team lead!

“I’ve come from being a fresher with no industry experience to an Engineering team lead… it’s not usual in the industry” — Read on to…
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Anagha Natraj
Aug 4, 2022
Meet Abhishek, Product Manager for Editage!

Meet Abhishek, Product Manager for Editage!

Read what our recent winner of the “Product Manager of the Year” award has to say about his #LifeAtCACTUSTech.
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Anagha Natraj
Jul 21, 2022
Meet Ada, our Product Manager!

Meet Ada, our Product Manager!

Being the bridge between the business and the technology team, Ada talks about her #LifeAtCACTUS, product management and more. Read on…
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Anagha Natraj
Jul 19, 2022
Playing with GPT3 in CACTUS hackathon: Semantic Search

Playing with GPT3 in CACTUS hackathon: Semantic Search

CACTUS organized a GPT3 hackathon as soon as we got access to the Open AI tool. Employees with a diverse range of roles and backgrounds…
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Hilke Reckman
Jun 22, 2022
Meet Jalaj, our Principal Data Scientist!

Meet Jalaj, our Principal Data Scientist!

Jalaj is the creator of our state-of-the-art GEC models and has published two books on NLP and ML using Python. Read on to know about her…
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Anagha Natraj
Jun 13, 2022
Meet Pooja, our Data-wiz!

Meet Pooja, our Data-wiz!

We spoke to Pooja Mehta, one of CACTUS’s data engineers. Read on to know more about what she does, what it is like at CACTUS, what drives…
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Anagha Natraj
May 19, 2022
Day in the life of a DevOps Engineer

Day in the life of a DevOps Engineer

I have been working as a DevOps Engineer with Cactus Communications for slightly more than 2.5 years.
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Omkar Kadam
May 3, 2022
How moving test workloads to spot saved us over 50% of our AWS spends

How moving test workloads to spot saved us over 50% of our AWS spends

Roughly around a year ago, we were thinking of newer approaches to help reduce our AWS costs thanks to our ever-increasing infrastructure.
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Omkar Kadam
Apr 13, 2022
How to hack a hackathon in 30 days? Ft. GPT-3

How to hack a hackathon in 30 days? Ft. GPT-3

The word Hackathon is a portmanteau — Hack + Marathon. Hacking as a term always has had bad rep courtesy movies and pop culture across the…
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Parth Agrawal
Jan 5, 2022
Life, Universe and Grammatical Error Correction

Life, Universe and Grammatical Error Correction

In this blog series, we will dive into a key component of deep tech at CACTUS LABS, which powers several of our AI and automated products…
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Parth Agrawal
Dec 15, 2021
Python Building Blocks — Iterators

Python Building Blocks — Iterators

Iterators are at the core of Python. We will discuss about what iterators are, when are they useful and how to make the best use of them.
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Mayank Raj
Nov 1, 2021
A product leader’s account of building something from the ground up at CACTUS

A product leader’s account of building something from the ground up at CACTUS

Siddharth Varshney is the Business Head, Research Discovery Product Suite, at Cactus Communications.
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Cactus Tech
Sep 12, 2021
A product manager discusses projects, team dynamics, and inspiring women in tech

A product manager discusses projects, team dynamics, and inspiring women in tech

Anjali Sam is a Product Manager for Researcher.Life, the researcher ecosystem built by Cactus Communications.
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Cactus Tech
Aug 26, 2021
Python for Automation: An introduction to more effective test automation

Python for Automation: An introduction to more effective test automation

If you’re someone who wants to venture into software testing or boost your career prospects if you’re a manual tester, you may have come…
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Libin Thomas
Aug 26, 2021
“The ownership on a project is like what you’d see in a startup” — An Associate Director talks…

“The ownership on a project is like what you’d see in a startup” — An Associate Director talks…

Mayank Raj is the Associate Director, Engineering, at Cactus Labs. He has extensive experience in building high-performance products…
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Cactus Tech
Aug 16, 2021
My story of working remotely

My story of working remotely

“Dad, I got a fully remote job!”, I said to my father over the phone, looking at the Cactus offer letter on my screen.
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Yash Jaiswal
Jul 15, 2021
Python Building Blocks - Generators

Python Building Blocks - Generators

Every programming language has few aspects that always remain in play and go unnoticed. In this post we will look at Python Generators.
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Mayank Raj
Jun 14, 2021
Building an effective product development team across countries

Building an effective product development team across countries

How we at Cactus are building the PaperPal Teams
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Søren Andersen
Jun 3, 2021
Can rockets be recycled? The value of a defining a problem well in business and technology

Can rockets be recycled? The value of a defining a problem well in business and technology

Over this weekend, as the world witnesses the first human spaceflight mission in a reused rocket, it is a good time to consider the value…
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Satyajit Rout
Apr 23, 2021
DataOps: Cost-effective big data pipeline using AWS

DataOps: Cost-effective big data pipeline using AWS

A proposed solution to automate big data processing in a cost-efficient manner
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Jinam Shah
Apr 14, 2021
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