• Fastest (?) Rail Serializer

    On one of my current projects we have a few objects that are massive. Why is it happened its another question, but accepting the fact that we have those long blocking calls, its been a headache to handle with. Not that critical to spend a lot of time to redesign the architecture (its an old and low budget project), but still making the works isn’t better place.

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  • Solve Elasticsearch reindexing downtime problem

    Recently we got a problem - reindexing out ES became a huge deal, it could take up to a few hours. Of course, data scheme doesn’t change so often but when it did, deploy procedure took too long to be acceptable for business.

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  • Easy cron jobs with Rails

    In our app we use Sidekiq for async operations, like sending email and etc. However, some tasks has to be done regularly and might take a lot of time to accomplish. For those ones we use gem clockwork in very simply way.

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  • OnComplete callbacks in Deepleaning frameworks

    I was thinking the other day, it would be very nice to have callback in various time-consuming functions. Especially its helpful for indie or hobby researchers, who have to spend they own money on cloud VM with GPU.

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  • Compiled Tensorflow

    Yesterday changed my backend to tensorflow and noticed a bunch of warning like “The TensorFlow library wasn’t compiled to use SSE..”

    Hm, I don’t usually run computation on local machine, I use GPU on Google Cloud, but its always nice to spend less time while doing quick model analysis.

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