Speed up your API by preparing SQL queries Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash Hello there! I would like to talk about how to speed up API responses with SQL queries using Gin-Gonic. In today’s world, APIs have become an integral part of most applications, and it’s crucial that they respond quickly to user requests. As you may know, Gin-Gonic is a popular web framework in the Go programming language. It’s fast, efficient, and easy to use. However, even with Gin-Gonic’s speed, your API responses can be slow due to slow database queries. That’s where db.Prepare comes in. db ..read more

A bot to communicate with LinkedIn recruiters Male Magician holding a magical stack of rune blocks — stable diffusion While working with GPT 3.5 and its request throttling system, I remembered an idea I had months ago about creating a simple, affordable chatbot with a short payload that could actually perform useful tasks. Much to my surprise, all the necessary pieces were readily available to me, including the ChatGPT API and other software I had developed for different projects. The Idea The concept is straightforward and direct, as demonstrated in the image below: Stages of the co ..read more

The surprising link between music orchestration and software development Photo by Tadas Mikuckis on Unsplash I have to be honest: I didn’t think I would end up being a software engineer. When I moved to Los Angeles after grad school, I was hoping to score music for films. Although my quest to break into the industry did land me a couple of credits (and my own IMDb page), it was tech work that paid the bills. Working composers warned me that when a hobby becomes an occupation, you risk losing your love for it. And composing work can be long and grueling. I took consolation in knowing that ..read more

The “bullshit” problem turns up in code, too Photo by Joshua Reddekopp on Unsplash Lately I’ve been seeing people using ChatGPT to write code. One guy posted on Twitter about how he used it to make a simple version of Pong “in under 60 seconds”, while another had it write a Python script to rename files. I wanted to get in on the action, so I asked ChatGPT — the March 14 version — to make a simple to-do list web app. I started off with this request … I’d like to make a simple to-do web app. Show me the code that would do the following: Display the text “My To-Do List” at th ..read more

A step-by-step guide to creating a live-streaming app Photo by Obed Hernández on Unsplash TL;DR Just a demo application showing how to build different components of a Live Stream Screen using Jetpack Compose. I have used a demo screen for now and discussed how we can make a live-streaming application. Demo of the live screen using Jetpack Compose At Eloelo, we don’t use Jetpack Compose as we migrated from React Native to Native Android with Kotlin around a year ago, but being a person not bound by any programming language, I just love to explore. Jetpack Compose came in very handy as ..read more

Creativity for software and product developers, and why it’s crucial Photo by Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash Computer science, albeit a technical field, is an art. Yeah, that’s hardly an insight we haven’t heard before, but what does that actually mean in practice? In what situations in computer science does this need for artistic, creative innovation arise, and how can we bring it to realization through the 0s and 1s that make up our products? I want to approach these questions through a proposition: our coding and product development workflows should be built like the creative process ..read more

A simple guide to Lambda tuning and tuning automation Original image produced by AWS Lambda Power Tuning There are many tips and tricks for tuning your Lambda functions. In this article, we will explore AWS Lambda Power Tuning, a state machine powered by AWS Step Functions that helps you optimize your Lambda functions for cost and/or performance in a data-driven way. We will manually tune a Lambda function through the AWS management console to understand all the steps involved. We will then explore how to automate the Lambda tuning from a GitHub Actions workflow. Before we dive into this ..read more

See how sentences relate to each other Image by author using pennylane.ai For my research, I calculated how similar sentences were to each other. This process involves transforming each sentence into a vector: a construct with direction and magnitude. Then, we take the cosine of the angle between the vectors. The closer the cosine is to one, the more similar the sentences are. I created a 2D array showing each sentence’s cosine similarity to another. But I had trouble seeing something meaningful in a sea of numbers. I converted this 2D array to a graph and plotted it with Networ ..read more

The use of step functions Photo by Sasha Kaunas on Unsplash “The world is asynchronous” was a big part of last year’s AWS re:invent keynote. Unsurprisingly we see this reflected in many architecture decisions and offered as the default modus operandi by many cloud providers and their service offerings. But adopting it is not without challenges[1][2], with concurrency being one of them. In the past, I covered why you would want to control concurrency and how to achieve it using SQS and its new “Maximum Concurrency” setting. Now, let’s expand to cover the use of step functions since th ..read more

MLflow is an open-source platform to manage the ML lifecycle Photo by DeepMind on UnsplashIntroduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence — perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information — demonstrated by machines. Today, AI is no longer profound technology in a science lab. Instead, it is at amateurs’ fingertips to create decent artwork, generate sophisticated conversation, and perform other intelligent tasks using DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, ChatGPT, Point·E, Whisper, etc. Have you ever wondered how a realistic image is generated by a natural language descriptio ..read more