Erik Bernhardsson
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CTO (Chief Troll Officer) @betterdotcom. Ex-Spotify, co-organizing NYC ML meetup, open sourcing sometimes (Luigi, Annoy), blogging random stuff. Dad.
Erik Bernhardsson
1w ago
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
4M ago
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
1y ago
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
1y ago
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
2y ago
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
2y ago
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
2y ago
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors (AWS et al) will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
2y ago
This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are bad and too hard to use ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
3y ago
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue). It's a made up story based on n-th hand experiences (for n ≤ 3), and quite opinionated ..read more
Erik Bernhardsson
3y ago
Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly ..read more