Ankit Mittal

Postgres Range Types are dope

Range types are a big differentiator of postgres, and they are awesome. Range types allows storing two dimensions of data in a single column. Many data modeling possibilities come true after combining them with the unique and constraint indexes that can be added.

You are not doing microservices correctly if

• You share databases
• You share caches and other ‘stateful’ stores
• You cannot deploy as single microservice without touching others
• You cannot update schema of one of the…

Tools for achieving devOps goals

DevOps as a concept can be confusing, especially for engineers like me who have not spent much time in…

How to start contributing to open source

I have been working as programmer for more than half a decade now, yet my open source…

Convolution Neural Networks using Tensorflow

I played around with CIFAR10 dataset and documenting here, going from 63% test…

“Fault” vs “Failure” and fault tolerant systems

Fault vs failure is one of those concepts which is well understood in theory classes but hard to grasp in the real world. Especially when in the real world teams are siloed into a horizontal and vertical matrix.

Notes from functions17 conf in Toronto

IBM cloud has support for open source apache open whisk. which aims to be could provider independent serverless framework. Will keep an eye on their progress.

1. Google’s firebase functions are in beta and hence by design do not provide any SLA for any serious…

My development Environment

I work at UpGrad, an ed-tech company working on empowering every individual to their full professional potential. My main techstack here is python 3.5, Django 1.9 and some number crunching using numpy.