Recently, after doing some Google mandated updates of MusicSync , my music player Android application, I received the following error in Android Studio during the build process. Plaintext 1 AAPT2 aapt2-8.8.0-12006047-osx Daemon #1: Daemon startup failed I tried to search for the error on Google, and got zero results . ...
My previous article recommended that one should reconsider using Python in production. However, there’s one category of use case where Python is the dominant option for running production workloads. And that’s data analysis and machine learning. Almost all bleeding-edge work in data analysis and machine learning, especially around LLMs, happens in Python. So, here are some of my learnings on how to run Python in production. ...
Dublin is a small city. Despite its high per-capita GDP, unlike Singapore or Tokyo , the city feels fairly low-key and more of a middle-affluent country. The official languages are Gaelic and English. To preserve Gaelic, all laws are officially passed in Gaelic! Day 1 The city of Dublin is not huge. You can walk everywhere and even skip public transport. I would recommend starting with a walking tour that gives you a great idea of the city. Rick Steve has great guides as well. ...
GitHub Actions (or GitLab CI) is great for Continuous Integration (CI). However, using it for Continuous Delivery (CD) for docker images isn’t necessary. And there is a better approach.
Here’s a simple project success heuristic. All projects have some element of uncertainty but over time the questions should become more refined. If that’s not happening, then the project is almost certainly failing. The company might still succeed via a pivot but the project is unlikely to. Consider the progression of questions for a consumer (B2C) product. Would anyone use this? Would a million people use this? What’s the total addressable market? Would people pay for this? Is 10$/month too high or can I increase the price further? Notice how questions keep becoming nuanced. ...
Day 1 - West Minster Start the day with a walking tour that gives you a nice history & geography of the city of London. Many of the royal palaces and crown-related buildings are in the city of “Westminster” which is next door to the City of London. Then head to the British Museum. Like most government-owned museums, it is free to access. However, I would recommend booking a reservation in advance. Rick Steves has a nice audio guide on touring the British Museum that I would recommend. ...
I started writing in the 2010s when Python 2 was going to be deprecated and Python 3 was too early to support. Python might have died there and then but was picked up by the data science and machine learning community, so, it survived. Running Python in production comes with various gotchas though. Python is resource-intensive Let’s consider a simple Docker image containing “Hello World”. Dockerfile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 # Build: docker buildx build -t python-fastapi -f Dockerfile_python . # Size: docker image inspect python-fastapi --format='{{.Size}}' | numfmt --to=iec-i # Run: docker run -it --rm --cpus=1 --memory=100m -p 8000:8000 python-fastapi FROM python:3.12-slim AS base WORKDIR /app RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir fastapi==0.115.11 uvicorn==0.34.0 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"] RUN echo -e "\ from fastapi import FastAPI\n\ app = FastAPI()\n\ @app.get('/')\n\ async def root():\n\ return {'message': 'Hello World'}\ " > /app/web_server.py ENTRYPOINT ["uvicorn", "web_server:app", "--host=0.0.0.0", "--port=8000", \ "--workers=4", "--limit-concurrency=32"] And a similar web server in Go. ...
IRS loves inflation Since taxes are on nominal gains, in case of 10% inflation, the owner of a stock or a real estate becomes liable for a 10% increase in the equity value even though the real gain is 0%. Credit card companies hate inflation Imagine the scenario with 1% monthly inflation (~13% annual inflation). If you spend 10,000$ on day 1 of your billing, the statement closes on day 30, and you pay back in full by day 60, the credit card company lost 2 months of value ~200$! ...
American government goes everywhere exporting its brand of democracy. The Chinese government wants to do business and make money [with these autocracies] in Asia, Africa, and South America - Lee Kuan Yew In many ways, American companies take the same approach. They build one product, localize it a bit for the target countries, and try to win big there. However, Chinese companies seem to take a different approach. China utilizes lower labor costs than its American counterparts and builds targeted products for markets. And Temu is the perfect example of that. Temu’s parent company’s flagship product is Pinduoduo. Pinduoduo is designed for the Chinese market. A completely unrelated E-commerce product, Temu is designed for the American market. ...
Miami is hot and humid. I would recommend visiting during winters (Nov-Feb). You can fly directly or use it as a stop-over for visiting the Caribbean or doing a Caribbean cruise Unlike Chicago or Boston , Miami does not have good public transport, so, I would recommend renting a car. Day 1 Start the day with a visit to Seaquarium for a Dolphin show. Follow this with a visit to Everglades National Park , do watch the show here, and get a chance to hold an alligator or a snake in your hand. ...