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MATH TYPESETTING
Mathematical notation in a Hugo project can be enabled by using third party JavaScript libraries.
GUIDE TO THUMBNAILS IN HUGO
Thumbnails can be enabled easily by setting the thumbnail parameter in the frontmatter to an image such as "images/landscape.jpg".
OPINIONATED GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM PROJECTS
I’m glad Google are finally starting to embrace Terraform by creating their own modules. Version 0.1.0 of the project-factory looks really promising.
MANAGING FLINK JOBS
The DA Platform is a huge step forward for running Flink at scale. I was lucky enough to see a demo and was really impressed. Far more advanced that the what can be achieved with Dataflow at the moment.
HOW TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE SRE CULTURE
Here are some tips on how to create an effective SRE culture:
HOW TO DELIVER MICROSERVICES
Here are some tips on how to deliver reliable, high-throughput, low-latency (micro)services:
PREDICT THE STOCK MARKET
The premise was simple. Use “big” data analytics and machine learning models to predict the movement of stock prices. However, we had really “dirty” data and our Data Scientists were stuggling to seperate the noise from the signals. We spent a lot of time cleaning the data and introducing good old principles like “how can I run the model somewhere over than a laptop?”. This was a true startup, a bunch of people in a room trying to get stuff working. No red tape, no calling the “helpdesk” to sort out your IT problems (I actually was the helpdesk).
DELTA RISK
QuantLib is a free and open-source software library for quantitative finance. It provides a wide range of functionality for pricing and risk-managing financial derivatives, including interest rate swaps.
TAMING THE STRAGGLERS IN GOOGLE CLOUD DATAFLOW
I’m currently bench-marking Flink against Google Cloud Dataflow using the same Apache Beam pipeline for quantitative analytics. One observation I’ve seen with Flink is the tail latency associated with some shards.