I am a Senior Developer at Scott Logic. I like exploring technology and have a keen interest in Big Data and Machine Learning.
Data Engineering
Highlights from one day training course on performance tuning with Apache Spark. Delving into the five most common reasons for poor performance.
Data Engineering
Create your own Elasticsearch cluster in cloud in next to no time. Leverage ElasticHQ and CloudWatch logging to gain transparency. Excerpts from a client project.
People
Gist of talks I loved while attending Women of Silicon Roundabout. The talks were a great mix on Diversity and Inclusion, Championing women, Technology and Motivation.
Cloud
Using spaCy for Named Entity Recognition, summarisation and similarity analysis in an AWS pipeline. Lessons learned in a client project.
Cloud
A summary of my experiences attending AWS Summit London, 2019. Highlights from talks that I found interesting and/or informative. Topics are mainly focused on high-performance computing, security and distributed architecture.
Data Engineering
A discussion about Cassandra consistency levels and replication factor, which are frequently misunderstood. This post explains the Cassandra infrastructure and how its configuration can be tuned.
Data Engineering
A successful attempt of load testing Alteryx API with Gatling and a not-so-successful attempt with Apache JMeter