Prabeesh K.

DataEngineer. Open-Source Enthusiast.

Open source contributor of @ApacheBeam @ApacheSpark @ApacheStorm

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

The role of open source in a company
#opensource
https://t.co/j5L1CmFTQ5

[कृत्रिम @Krutrim]

AI's Role in India's Future

#KrutrimAI

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Live Demo of #KrutrimAI

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

New Blog Post: Performance Tuning on Apache Spark
https://t.co/UHQgkHXkKf
This blog post covers common issues to consider when optimizing Apache Spark, including spill prevention, skew reduction, shuffle minimization, storage optimization, and serialization optimization.

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

Happy New Year

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@_odino_ Congratulations Alex

[» teej @teej_m]

I thought these were drawn exclusively for O’Reilly. My whole life is a lie.

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

Happy New Year

[Signal @signalapp]

Facebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they'll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for 'Signal' in the App Store.

P.S. There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours.

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

Happy New Year

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@geshan amazing @geshan

[Reynold Xin @rxin]

"You won the Nobel Prize. And so, they try to reach you, but they cannot. They don't seem to have a number for you. We gave them your cell phone number."

https://t.co/cJ6cX5EXKX

[Thomas Isaac @drthomasisaac]

Kerala has become first state to achieve total digitalisation of school education. 42000 class rooms from 8th to 12th have laptops, projectors and screens. Class rooms networked with school studios. All LP and UP schools ensured at least one smart class room with computer lab.

[Pramode C.E @pramode_ce]

And all of this will be powered by Free Software! Great work once again by the govt of Kerala!

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

The DILUTED Environmental Impact Assessment relies on self compliance - it assumes that violators will report themselves. This is upside down logic! This draft is a mockery of the process of environmental protection. Mail @moefcc to #WithdrawDraftEIA2020

[Soumya S @soumyasoman]

Did you send an email? Last Date is Aug 11. #malayalamTwitter? #withdraweiadraft2020

[Prabeesh K. @prabeesh_k]

#DontCountMe #dontcountmeinthat130crore

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I have a new badge in Github. #github #ArcticCodeVaultContributor #ACVC https://t.co/Swjw7vb4xh

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Happy New Year