This post introduces the concepts behind 'serverless computing' -- a way of quickly and easily deploying lightweight apps (e.g. APIs). It looks at the associated advantages and disadvantages of serverless, and gives a short example showing how to deploy your own serverless function to Google Cloud.
This post introduces Xanthus - a new open source Deep Learning package built on TensorFlow 2.0 for quickly and easily building state of the art recommendation models in Python.
It's easy to feel that the present times are 'unprecedented'. Yet sometimes it's clear that the events of today are echoes of problems familiar to those in the past. This post shares an essay written by Orwell in 1945, that feels particularly relevant to the times.
Creating CLIs can help improve accessibility and reuse of your scripts and packages, but they can also be a bit of a pain to set up and maintain. Fire makes building CLIs for your latest ML pipeline a breeze.
Here's my annual list of my favourite books from the past year. There's even a business book on here for the first time.
Python is a wonderful language for many applications, but it is not renowned for its speed. This post looks at how you can quickly and easily use Cython to dramatically accelerate your Python code (in some cases).