Deploying performant websites at massive scale has never been easier (or cheaper) — All hail the JAMStack Sites built on the JAMStack are all the rage these days; they’ve become a popular alternative to full-stack frameworks and server-side rendered web applications. They’re lightweight, performant, and are extremely easy to deploy on platforms like Vercel or Netlify. …

Working with data on Android is inconvenient! If you’ve used TensorFlow Lite on Android before, chances are that you’ve had to deal with the tedious task of pre-processing data, working with Float arrays in a statically typed language or resize, transform, normalize, and do any of the other standard tasks required before the data is fit for…

I recently participated in the HackOn Hackathon, a pan-India hackathon sponsored by some big names in the tech world: Google, GitHub, Elastic, IBM, Zulip, and Devfolio. I was stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted something fun to do when my friend Pragati (who was also my…

Why Rust? I’ve been hearing about Rust and its powerful features for a while now, and I finally decided to try it out for myself. If you don’t know, here’s a short summary of why Rust is gaining popularity. Rust is extremely safe. It prevents the programmer from making mistakes that might…

There’s been a lot of buzz around the MVVM architecture and Android Jetpack in general ever since Google released them back in 2017. This series of posts aims to demystify and explain the concepts behind this architecture, as well as implement a production-ready app. I don’t aim to explain why…