Nagaraj Tantri

Senior Engineer @ Spotify

#DistributedComputing #Python #Java #Javascript #AWS

[Nagaraj Tantri @IMTantri]

I just published a blog on

"Builder Pattern—Design Pattern in Plain English for Developers" https://t.co/llC58PFnKC

Please read it and do provide feedback in case possible.

#Developers #technology #Blog #Java #design #designthinking for #CodeNewbie and #Coding

[Physics-astronomy @Physicsastronmy]

The beauty of physics is simply beyond imagination. 🚀

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Phone camera PSA

[PyQuant News 🐍 @pyquantnews]

This works (very) well.

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What Was The View Of Greeks On Indian Civilization? | David Frawley https://t.co/sJa82V9hYd via @YouTube

[Roly ||| 🕊📸 @CursedLemon99]

This is the only The Office clip i have bookmarked but it's an ideal candidate

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Meta planning to use AI users to interact with real users 🐳

https://t.co/iOXDWq1Eb0

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Some Humans think they are better than others because of their race and the country that their forefathers invaded!

This discussion on H-1B shows you the truth of how a society formed by immigration thinks about immigration.

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Crazy!

Git repo size was reduced from 178GB to 5GB

https://t.co/2TqvHcE9kv

#Technology #CloudComputing #javascript #monorepo

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This is an indication that a mammoth company like AWS can't keep up with smaller niche companies that aim to develop one product and offer it as a service 🤷

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AWS is trying to focus more on deprecating non-popular services and investing more in revenue-generating products.

Deprecating:
* AWS CodeCommit (git source control)
* AWS AppMesh
* Amazon FSx File Gateway

#Profit #FocusNews #AWS

https://t.co/iWWZ2kjauB

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https://t.co/YhVT7L30Yl

Just sharing that I find this a really good tool!

Most of the companies seem to not find such good tools readily available for their use.

#opensource #bigdata #sql #query

[Nagaraj Tantri @IMTantri]

The kind of notifications that make you think!

#blog

[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Q: How do you build a great company?

In the clip below, Sam Altman walks through 9 things he has seen the best founders do:

#1 Get to know your users really well

“The best founders do customer support themselves. They go visit their users—in the case of Airbnb they go live with them. You want to get to know your users really really well.”

#2 Have a short cycle time & understand compound growth

“The cycle here is basically: talk to customer to understand pain point → build product to address that → get product in front of user → see what they do → repeat cycle. This cycle is how you iterate and improve. The law of compound growth being what it is: if you can get 2% better every iteration cycle, your iteration cycle is every four hours rather than every four weeks, and you compound that over the course of a few years, you’ll be in a very very different place. Make it one of your top goals to build one of the fastest iterating companies the world has ever seen.”

#3 Make a long-term commitment

“Most companies have a 2-3 year time horizon. But companies are almost always a 10 year project if they work. If you think about it that way from the very beginning, you will make very different and much better decisions. I think this is the only arbitrage opportunity left in the market. Almost no one makes a fairly long-term commitment to a new project. But if you do that, you will think in a different way, you will hire different people, and it will work very well.”

#4 Stay lean until everything is working really well

“In the early days, when you’re experimenting and zig zagging, you’re like a fast little speed boat and want to be able to turn the whole company on a dime. You can’t do that if you’re a big company—cash burn aside, which is another problem. The flexibility of the company basically decreases with the square of the number of employees, so you want to stay really small until you’re sure things are working. Once things are working, then you can get really big.”

#5 Resist the urge to hire; especially resist the urge to hire mediocre people

“Vinod Khosla has a saying that I love: ‘the team you build is the company you build.’ This is really true and I never appreciated how true this was for a long time. If you build a team of great people and you have a product that people love, you’ll have a 90%+ chance of success. Those are both really hard to do, and they’re independent variables. But don’t ignore the team component. The best CEOs I know spend huge amounts of their time recruiting and retaining good talent.”

#6 Relentless execution

“You have to keep going, and do things perfectly, and get all of the details right. You have to care too much about every experience that a customer has with your company.”

#7 Startups are about not giving up

“One of the very best companies in the last YC batch applied 7 times before they got in. This is just a version of what happens in startups all of the time: you get beat down, again, and again, and again. And that last time when you get pushed down and don’t think you have enough energy to get back up—that’s the time it actually works. This is what you sign up for if you’re going to start a startup.”

#8 Fiduciary duty to take care of yourself

“This is a 10 year marathon and you have a fiduciary duty to your shareholders to take care of yourself. Some people treat startups like an all-nighter: they don’t take care of their health, they don’t sleep, they don’t maintain their personal relationships. It is true that startups are a bad choice for work-life balance. But you have a duty to yourself, your team, and your investors to take care of yourself.”

#9 Clear mission

“You don’t have to figure this out on Day 1, but all of the most successful startups I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of pretty quickly—in the first one to two years—figure out a really important mission. It’s this mission that gets people to join them. It drives the founders. It gets the media to write about them. And even if you start off building a project that’s just interesting to you and solves a problem in your life—which is how you should start—remember that you should have a clear mission at some point… That is what will convince people to come help you, and that is how you will build this idea into a huge company with a ton of people that really love your product.”

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Corporate real estate makes somebody take the complete opposite philosophy that could benefit their company's growth 😅

https://t.co/v4EbvpzWv2

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@PrasannaChitnis @PPFAS @_groww Haha, in todays world we have surpassed all that “limited sharing”. The fact that all these data are saved with Cams, Karvy and other agency, imagine their “data security”. Your every search online on mutual fund is captured by Google also for analytics and ads. So it shud be ok

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Nowadays it's hopeless to see blog recommendations.

Every blog suggestion is about ChatGPT or AI.

#Blog #ChatGPT #OpenAI

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https://t.co/tL0CBwB6lz

Infrastructure as SQL?

IMHO this is not good. Imagine the number of folks wanting to bring in SQL changes under git revisions to track the commits.

Stick to using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)!

#AWS #Devops

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Blogged after a long time.

Please do read it.

https://t.co/OWbzLT23sq

#SoftwareDeveloper

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@BengaluruRising @bjpmanju107 @bjpblorecentral @gkkhasle @RajeshGaVee @Dasharathvailay Great going, Suresh 👏