With the need for quick decisions and scalable, real-time applications, Kafka is a tool that is used by companies all around the world. Introduction Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming platform designed to handle real-time data feeds. It is widely used by developers and businesses to build scalable and fault-tolerant…

I wanted to carry out an interesting exercise, I wanted to see how far I could push ChatGPT to create content. As a writer, there is fear and excitement about the future of content. The fear is that I will be replaced by a better writer and the excitement stems…

It’s always an interesting exercise to ponder what the future holds. With the pandemic that lasted for a couple of years, a lot has changed. Who Am I and why am I speaking about this? Well, my name is Anish Mahapatra and I am currently a Senior Data Scientist with a Fortune 200 Retail Giant. I have been in the…

Many people leveraged the Great Resignation to move to better positions, get ahead with their compensation, and try a new ecosystem. Surprise-surprise people also regretted moving. According to CNBC, about 26% of job switchers regret joining their new company. I was fortunate to join a great Fortune 200 Retail Company…

Work is 70% of your life. It’s something you come to accept if you are in a consulting practice. As a Data Science Consultant for a Fortune 500 Company, I present to the leadership twice a week or more. A doubt that lingers in folks new to consulting is, “Do…

When we seek to perform analysis, there are multiple ways to run analytics or train models. The most popular method is to download the Anaconda framework on your computer and work on Jupyter Notebooks (previously know as Python Notebooks). What is a notebook in Data Science? It’s fairly simple, what do we use notebooks in college for…

The Cloud is a complicated space. It’s not a simple plug and play as most people would imagine. Let’s simplify the Cloud: GCP Edition. — The Cloud is a complicated space. It’s not a simple plug and play as most people would imagine. We have folks from various backgrounds such as developers, network engineers, machine learning engineers, data architects etc. who would have mastery over certain components of the cloud.

The pandemic is on us. Officially. Unemployment rates have already crossed the predominant highs of the uncomfortable Great Depression and we ’re not even half-way into to the pandemic. Good people are losing their livelihoods and the rest of us are having our financial peace of mind stripped off. Those…

It’s a beautiful opportunity to sit here in front of the dim computer screen, settle down comfortably and hear the click-clack of the laptop keyboard as I try to pen down my thoughts. I’m on day 60 of quarantine. …