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Building Semantic Search for E-commerce Using Product Embeddings and OpenSearch

September 27, 2024 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Semantic Search for E-commerce

Hey! So, I recently worked on this cool proof of concept (POC) where I tried to combine product embeddings with OpenSearch to enable a k-nearest neighbours (k-NN) search. Basically, I wanted to see if I could make searching through a product catalog smarter by using embeddings (which are essentially vector representations of the product information) instead of just basic text … [Read more...] about Building Semantic Search for E-commerce Using Product Embeddings and OpenSearch

Leader Election with ZooKeeper: Simplifying Distributed Systems Management

July 23, 2024 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

AI generated featured image for Leader Election article

Imagine you are in a group project, the task is pretty complex :p and everyone is looking at each other, wondering who is going to take the lead? Does this situation sounds similar to you? I remember we used to play some sort of game like "Rock, Paper, Scissor" or "Eeny, meeny, miny moe" (I never did this but my sister). Similarly, distributed systems have their own ways of … [Read more...] about Leader Election with ZooKeeper: Simplifying Distributed Systems Management

AWS Serverless Event Driven Data Ingestion from Multiple and Diverse Sources

April 15, 2024 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

AWS Event Driven Data Ingestion Architecture

At times there is a requirement to centralize data from different sources. This could be required for various needs, There could be any number of reason behind data ingestion. And in this article I will explore a very cost effective, scalable and completely serverless architecture that could do just that. I have used AWS cloud for the same but I'm sure you can find a … [Read more...] about AWS Serverless Event Driven Data Ingestion from Multiple and Diverse Sources

Setup Frontend Project Without Needing Backend Using Local Storage (Dependency Injection)

November 18, 2023 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Frontend Code Architecture

Today the frontend applications has become quite sophisticated. They are capable of handling complex logic to provide a seamless user experience. With the frameworks like React/Angular/Vue the landscape of frontend has changed quite a lot. I remember the days when I used to write my application in pure HTML and use to handle the dynamic interactions with Javascript (using … [Read more...] about Setup Frontend Project Without Needing Backend Using Local Storage (Dependency Injection)

Deploy Lambda Function and API Gateway With Terraform

June 18, 2023 by varunshrivastava 2 Comments

Lambda Function with API Gateway architecture

Recently, I have started learning terraform (not by choice) because one of the clients needs it. Its a neat tool to manage your infra as code, no doubt about it. But if you ask my personal opinion as a dev, I would say go with the native cloud solution. For ex - AWS CDK. Native not only has all the required features to work with your cloud provider but also streamlines and … [Read more...] about Deploy Lambda Function and API Gateway With Terraform

Event Driven Communication Between Domains/Components – Frontend Development

May 8, 2023 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Event Driven Communication via Event Bus

Event Driven Architecture has been around for decades. This is not something new that we discovered recently. But we have definitely seen the rise of this with the emergence of distributed system and need for asynchronous communication. Event Driven Architecture really helps to reduce the complexity involved with distributed system while providing a way to asynchronously … [Read more...] about Event Driven Communication Between Domains/Components – Frontend Development

A Brief Discussion On Frontend and Micro-frontends

April 1, 2023 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Breaking down Monoliths into Micro-frontends

Whenever we hear the world "Monolith" it kind a sounds like a large block of age old monument, but in the world of software development monolith is not age old, infact, monolith is the first choice. Whenever I start on a project, I prefer to go monolith. There are several benefits of that. For one, it has less components and its really fast to develop and release new features … [Read more...] about A Brief Discussion On Frontend and Micro-frontends

Top 5 Common Design Patterns

August 8, 2022 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

good code, bad code

Design patterns could make a difference in the way you write code. The thing we all need to understand is that we will come across many people who could write code, but there will be very few who write the code in a way that is scalable, maintainable, free of smells and most importantly readable. And to make a shift, it is important to know and understand different design … [Read more...] about Top 5 Common Design Patterns

Design A Notification System

May 19, 2022 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Distributed Notification System Design

The notification system is a very important part of any organization, especially financial orgs. For ex: It is very important to tell people about their upcoming payments. Or that the order has been placed successfully with the receipt of their order. It gives them feedback that things went well. But have you ever given any thought to how notification works or is delivered … [Read more...] about Design A Notification System

Replication – How Is It Done In Distributed Systems?

February 3, 2022 by varunshrivastava Leave a Comment

Replication simply means keeping a copy of the same data on multiple machines connected via a network. These machines could be present in different parts of the world and not necessarily in the same perimeter. There are many benefits of having this redundancy that you will see later in this article. The objective is this article is to provide some insights into different … [Read more...] about Replication – How Is It Done In Distributed Systems?

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