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A blog by the cool techies working at Vortexa

Parsing semi-structured Excel files with our open-sourced library called Refinery

Parsing semi-structured Excel files with our open-sourced library called Refinery

In this series of articles, we’ll explore the problem of semi-structured data here at Vortexa, what extraction and maintainability…
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Anton Le
Apr 20
Enabling live debugging of email pipelines with AWS SES and Google Groups

Enabling live debugging of email pipelines with AWS SES and Google Groups

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Jacob A. Hudson
Mar 21
Choosing an Analytics Tool. Metabase Vs Superset Vs Redash

Choosing an Analytics Tool. Metabase Vs Superset Vs Redash

How to decide on the right Dashboarding&Alerting tool for your organisation
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Stefan Mihaylov
Feb 9
Using Rust in-process with Java

Using Rust in-process with Java

How scaling vertically can make horizontal scaling achievable.
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Edward Wright
Aug 31, 2021
When Parquet Columns Get Too Big

When Parquet Columns Get Too Big

This article is for engineers who use Apache Parquet for data exchange and don’t want nasty surprises.
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Edward Wright
Jun 10, 2021
Integrating Rust into Python

Integrating Rust into Python

In my last blog post, I detailed how making a very small change to some complex production Python code, introducing Rust to handle a code…
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Edward Wright
Apr 12, 2021
Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times

Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times

There are times when adopting a standard approach just isn’t good enough. This post is about making minimal changes for maximum effect…
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Edward Wright
Mar 17, 2021
Building a culture of business owners and incremental innovations

Building a culture of business owners and incremental innovations

Don’t ask for permission — ask for advice
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Romain Guion
Feb 16, 2021
Complete Guide to Python Envs (Unix/MacOS)

Complete Guide to Python Envs (Unix/MacOS)

Configuring python on your machine for the first time is a definite headache for any software engineer that decides to delve into the…
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Christos Hadjinikolis
Feb 16, 2021
Tear down this wall, energy experts start coding

Tear down this wall, energy experts start coding

Behind me stands a wall that encircles the techies of this world, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the professional…
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kitburgess
Jan 18, 2021
Failing is important (if you want to succeed)

Failing is important (if you want to succeed)

Edward Wright
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Edward Wright
Nov 17, 2020
The Curious Case of the Sorted Array

The Curious Case of the Sorted Array

Microprocessors. Those tiny circuits with their billions of transistors working together at crazy speeds. As a software engineer, we tend…
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Edward Wright
Oct 27, 2020
Exploring Vortexa’s new Voyage Calculator

Exploring Vortexa’s new Voyage Calculator

Many thanks to @laurence.ashdown, the developer behind the Voyage Calculator, and the co-author of this piece!
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Pawel Pietruszka
Oct 20, 2020
What’s the point (in polygon)?

What’s the point (in polygon)?

Sometimes you can beat library performance by 3 orders of magnitude.
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Edward Wright
Oct 16, 2020
Where’s your (over)head at? Pt II

Where’s your (over)head at? Pt II

This is the second article of this series, outlining how to think about data processing code in the Python world, and more specifically…
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Constantin von Stegmann
Sep 16, 2020
Site Reliability Engineering at Vortexa

Site Reliability Engineering at Vortexa

Vortexa provide the most complete data on global waterborne oil & gas flows through harnessing powerful analytics tools in near-realtime…
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Jakub Korzeniowski
Sep 16, 2020
Vortexa’s Python SDK for a programming novice

Vortexa’s Python SDK for a programming novice

From Data Analyst to Python Developer
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Nathaniel Day
Jul 15, 2020
Where’s your (over)head at?

Where’s your (over)head at?

The first in a two-part series of articles outlining how to think about data processing code in the Python world, and more…
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Constantin von Stegmann
Jul 15, 2020
Satellite images object detection — part 2: the beauty & the beast

Satellite images object detection — part 2: the beauty & the beast

Ship surveillance & tracking with Tensorflow 2.0 — part 2: transfer learning; CAM attention interpretability
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Romain Guion
Jun 16, 2020
Satellite image segmentation— part 3

Satellite image segmentation— part 3

Ship surveillance & tracking — part 3: Identifying where ships are on an image, using a U-net built on top of encoder trained in part 2.
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Romain Guion
Jun 12, 2020
Clustering London by all it has to offer (and how to afford it)

Clustering London by all it has to offer (and how to afford it)

Let’s face it, London is a pretty cool city. Whether its the historic architecture, the green open spaces or the many bars and restaurants…
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Syed Ahmad
May 29, 2020
Satellite images object detection — part 1: 95% accuracy in a few lines of code

Satellite images object detection — part 1: 95% accuracy in a few lines of code

Ship surveillance & tracking with Tensorflow 2.0 — part 1: super simple solution
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Romain Guion
Feb 4, 2020
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