Dheepak's blog

I use SQL and Python to earn my bread. Being an ETL developer turned Data Engineer, my work is to fetch data from different sources, cleaning it, and making it consumption ready before storing it in some storage space - database, S3 et al.

It’s amusing to know that someone will be consuming this data and pull insights from it like a magician pulling a rabbit off his hat. The reporting tools were the go-to place to churn these processed data. The decision-makers use the reports generated by these tools. The reports are mostly limited to tables, bar, line, or pie charts.

Amidst the pandemic, tracking the daily case numbers from the government bulletin became a habit for us. For a small circle of friends involving 3-4 guys, it’s a routine to dissect the numbers and get meaning from the case number.

The distance between the decision-makers and us is more than the distance between Moon and Earth. Yet, we discuss as if to guide the entire state. The discussions usually raise some questions on the back story about the rise or fall of numbers.

E-Commerce, eBooks, Prime Video & music even for some AWS. This is the list of items that my close surroundings say about Amazon’s domain. Kindle is mostly overlooked or not prominently known among people.

Kindle is a strange product from Amazon. Unlike its Video/music or retail site, Kindle appeals to a narrow circle - readers. Even among the readers, there is a split between ebook and physical book readers.

Firstly, it’s the only hardware product from Amazon. The hardware is not some cheap plastic. The device boasts a solid design, handy to carry around, easier to handle in a single hand. The battery is one of the key factors, once fully charged the device runs for weeks. .Secondly, unlike other products Kindle helps us to build a constructive habit - reading. Third, once you acquire Kindle you can circumvent Amazon entirely and no need to pay. The hardware superiority and goodness of reading have been covered by so many blogs. Here, I’ll explain how I’m using Kindle to use Kindle.

Certifications are a waste of time. It’s not unreasonable as I came across dumps (aka recent questions, question banks). Once you memorize the contents of the question bank, you can score cent percent. Memorise answers and recall them in the exam hall, score a pass mark - a common theme in schools and colleges. I went through it as there are no alternatives. But in the post-academic stage of life, I was hesitant to follow the same approach in office. My point was simple,

This is the 7^th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (November 10, 2020). This is 444 words long.

1. #USElection2020

Joe Biden (aka Amtrak Joe) is the president-elect, winning over the incumbent Donald J Trump. It’s been a huge drama right from the preparation to election till the vote counting. And, even now the counting is not over - the Senate & the House results are awaited. To be fair, the DJT’s term was dramatic. Even now the President is not conceding defeat.

This is the 6^th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (November 3, 2020). It’s been a month since I updated the page. To restart the habit, I’m keeping this short to cover only the COVID stats, I’ll be sharing interesting stuffs from the weekend.

Before wrapping it up lets touch on the most important event of the year. Okay, considering COVID, this is one of the important event of the year. The day has ended for me, but for the Americans it’s a busy day - US Presidential Election 2020. We will get to know whether Trump or Biden going to prevail for next few years.

This is the 5^th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 29, 2020). This is 759 words long.

Some interesting finds from the past week

1. What could an old TV could do? Breaking the Internet, may be.

Yes, the old TV took revenge on internet, in a village in Wales, UK. The story in the Register is worth a read, and could be valid post in r/Whatcouldgowrong

This is the 4^th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 22, 2020). This is 757 words long.

Some interesting finds from the past week

1. Big Bazaar Story

   During college days, we visit Big Bazaar to have their ice cream. Ice cream connoisseurs may not agree, but for us, a small group of college kids who depend on pocket money for this occasional eat out, the Big Bazaar was the goto place.

This is the third instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 13, 2020). Word count at 800.

Some interesting items from the past week

The AIIMS Story

I happened to read about the founder of AIIMS - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. This piece from Indian Express details on how she dreamt about an institute for medical higher education in India.

Here, I want to discuss about an unexpected outcome from interview. Contrary to the ‘rona times, I felt happy and contented.

The interview is usually a stressful affair. I usually prepare 100s of topics, then the interviewer will bombard me with 101^st topic. Well, its just a déjà vu, nothing new with the session.

The interviewer was friendly and made me absolutely comfortable, there were no stress-inducing questions, all through the entire discussion.