Photo by Martin Oslic on UnsplashAs mentioned in an earlier post, we rely on Celery for publishing and consuming tasks to/from our RabbitMQ (RMQ) broker. We are very happy with the whole setup and it works reliably for us. But this wasn’t exactly the case up until four weeks back. We were plagued with a … Continue reading Two years with Celery in Production: Bug Fix Edition
Author: ketanbhatt
Leveraging AWS Lambda for Image Compression at scale
A lot of problems we solve at Squad deal with images. Images to be tagged, labeled, moderated, transcribed etc. And there is this thing about images, they are generally heavier than text, digitally. And if our contractors (users of our app) spend more money on internet packs/plans than what they earn, or if they have … Continue reading Leveraging AWS Lambda for Image Compression at scale
Why Squad: Second Innings
No, I don't think the world at large is interested in what I am doing with my life. But I needed to write this because this question will get asked often internally and because DRY. For the lazy, here is a tl;dr: I missed the team, and the hustle. Platform team was facing acute bandwidth … Continue reading Why Squad: Second Innings
Vikas Gulati – The Platform behind Squad’s Platform
Just me fanboying about my mentor, with the sole purpose of getting more page views on my sad blog when he becomes famous.
How we built an engineering culture of doing more with less
Designed by FreepikSometimes when I tell my friends what we have built in a short span of time, I see there eyes going wide in disbelief. One candidate I was talking to about SquadRun thought we had 10–12 developers in the team, judging by what all we had built. But we are not a team … Continue reading How we built an engineering culture of doing more with less
Hack Django ORM to calculate Median and Percentiles (Or make annotations great again!)
Hacks should be quick. And so should be the articles about them. Photo by Caspar Rubin on Unsplash Problem We needed to calculate medians, percentiles for some quantities for our own ETL system (note to self: write a post on this) grouped by certain fields. Some options we had: Extra: But Django says this will … Continue reading Hack Django ORM to calculate Median and Percentiles (Or make annotations great again!)
