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Load balancing - excellent explanations and visualizations about load balancing and different approaches. I wish for follow-up posts about caching and stickiness that influence…
- Thoughts on Tech Debt·3 min
I have been thinking about tech debt for a while now and how to address it daily. Few dilemmas for example - Should we update our Python version or a version of one of the…
Last week I gave an extended version of my talk about box plots in Noa Cohen 's Introduction to Data Science class at Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem. Slides can be found…
How to communicate effectively as a developer . - writing effectively is the second most important skill after reading effectively and one of the skills that can differentiate you…
Earlier today, I spoke at DataTLV conference about box plots - what they expose, what they hide, and how they mislead. My slides can be found here , and the code used to generate…
Human genetics 101 - a new blog about genetics by Nadav Brandes, who works at UCSF as part of the Ye lab. Reading is very accessible even to non-biologist (like me :).…
I analyzed 1835 hospital price lists so you didn't have to - this post had a few interesting things. First, learning about CMS's price transparency law. In Israel this is a…
- Playing with DALL·E mini·2 min
DALL·E 2 is a multimodal AI system that generates images from text. OpenAI announced the model in April 2022. OpenAI is known for GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175…
Visualizing multicollinearity in Python - I like the network one although it is not very intuitive at first sight. The others you can also get using pandas-profiling.…
A while ago, a friend asked me about a topic she needed to tackle – her team had many support tickets to prioritize, decide what to work on, and further communicate it to the…
- CSV to radar plot·1 min
I find a radar plot a helpful tool for visual comparison between items when there are multiple axes. It helps me sort out my thoughts. Therefore I created a small script that…
One of the most common practices today as part of the interview process are take-home assignments. However, though practical and valuable, this practice is tricky and needs to be…
What to Do When You Are Less Productive Than Your Teammates? I know Miri for a while and she has a very unique and sensitive point of view. This post is worth reading even if you…
7 PyTest Features and Plugins That Will Save You Tons of Time - I read many tutorials and posts about PyTest and this is the first time I run into those flags (features 1-5) which…
In the last year and 3 months, I work for Lynx.md. We develop a medical data science platform that bridges the gap between data owners and data consumers while taking care of…
Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 - I read those posts as thrillers (and some of them are the same length :). This post describes the effort of…
- Other pie chart·1 min
This morning I read " 20 ideas for better data visualization ". I liked it very much and specially I found 8th idea - "Limit the number of slices displayed in a pie chart" very…
4 Things Tutorials Don't Tell You About PyPI - this hands-on experience together with the explanations is priceless. Even if you don't plan to upload a package to PyPI anytime…
I recently run into a team lead question regarding how to grow a backend Python Developer in her team. Since I also iterated around this topic with my team I already had few ideas…
Now days, it is a very common practice to give a coding home tests as part of interview process. Beside solving the task you are ask to I believe there are few additional things…
Writing a Great CV for Your First Technical Role - a series of 3 parts about best practices, mistakes, and pitfalls in CV showing both good and bad examples. I find the posts…
The 7 Branches of Software Gardening - "A small refactoring a day keeps the tech debt away " (paraphrasing^2). Great examples of small activities and improvments every developer…
I read Domino Lab post about " Data Exploration with Pandas Profiler and D-Tale" where they load diagnostic mammograms used in the diagnostic of breast cancer from UCI website.…
AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) AWS announcement What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda is FaaS (function as a service) offering. It is an…
That's me :) Took the exam yesterday and passed. I learned many news things on the way (e.g here , here , here and here ) and I believe this knowledge (combined with the hands-on…