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Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari is a hands-on technologist and an engineering leader. He writes about technology, architecture, and engineering leadership.

Data Engineering

A case for ELT

Posted by Abhishek Tiwari on December 23rd, 2017

A case for ELT (i.e. extract, load, and transform) and difference between ETL and ELT

Machine learning

Upcoming of the learned data structures

Posted by Abhishek Tiwari on December 14th, 2017

Can machine learning-based data structures i.e. learned data structures replace traditional data structures? This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow...

Distributed Systems

Featured

Rise of TrueTime: Rationale behind Amazon Time Sync Service

Posted by Abhishek Tiwari on December 1st, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. In many ways, Amazon Time Sync Service is truly inspired by Google' TrueTime....

JavaScript

What I've learned so far about React

Posted by Abhishek Tiwari on September 26th, 2017

Over the weekend, I took a shot to build something new in React. React is a JavaScript library to build user interfaces. React was open sourced by Facebook and since then it has gained popularity over other frontend frameworks such as Angular, Vue, etc. To...

Kubernetes

Local Development Environment for Kubernetes using Minikube

Posted by Abhishek Tiwari on September 11th, 2017

Kubernetes can be an ultimate local development environment particularly if you are wrangling with a large number of microservices. In this post, we will cover how you can create a local development workflow using Minikube and tools such as Make to iterate fast without the...