EatCodePlay

Harnessing the Power of Hugging Face and AWS for Scalable Image Classification

A Simple DAG to Quickly Purge Old Airflow Logs

Earlier on, we had little automation around the maintenance of our Airflow…

Upgrading to Airflow 2.0: Massive Performance Wins and Lessons Learned

At RealScout, we use Apache Airflow to orchestrate our crucial workflows such as data ingestions, health checks, and reconciliation processes. Our team recently upgraded our stack from Airflow 1.10.10 to the…

Zero-Downtime ECS Cluster Upgrades

As part of the DataOps team at RealScout, I recently worked on a…

Operations Mise en Place, part I — Logs

When you first start writing a new web application, it’s often very easy to get caught up…

Time Well Spent

Over the past six years of practicing different types of programming, I have worked in a variety of environments. I’ve seen traditional and non-traditional, organized and not so much. However in the last 2+ years being remote and also part of a big team with great people that love to pair-program…

On the Road to a Better ElasticSearch Location Typeahead

tldr; With ElasticSearch’s edge ngram filter, decay function scoring, and top hits aggregations, we came up with a fast and accurate multi-type (neighborhoods, cities, metro areas, etc) location autocomplete with logical grouping…

GraphQL Performance Monitoring with New Relic

Over the past 6 months, the RealScout engineering team has been experimenting…

Making a Difference

Life at a startup can be pretty hectic. It might seem that in the Eat — Code — Play equation, coding dominates by far, but…