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I mainly write about learnings, challenges and projects that I encounter during my transition from software engineering to AI. Due to my background is in software engineering, you will also find articles that focus on system design and technical leadership.

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System Design


How to Choose Tech for Production: The Default Heuristic

Introduction

During my time as a lead data engineer to build a predictive maintenance platform I came across the concept of the default heuristic. One of my tasks was to identify platform components that would allow us to scale storage and retrieval of time series sensory data to petabytes, while still being able to support critical use cases of data scientists as well as analytical reporting.

Interview Series: Working with an SRE

Preamble

In this insightful interview, Paul Bütow, a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Mimecast, shares over a decade of experience in the field. Paul highlights the role of an Embedded SRE, emphasizing the importance of automation, observability, and effective incident management. We also focused on the key question of how you can work effectively with an SRE weather you are an individual contributor or a manager, a software engineer or data scientist. And how you can learn more about site reliability engineering.