Jaseem Abid

About:

Jaseem Abid is a Software Engineer in London with interests in compilers and deep learning, working at MongoDB. He enjoys tennis, hiking, and F1.

Website:

blog.jabid.in

Specializations:

Software engineer Site Reliability Engineer

Interests:

Compilers Distributed systems Programming languages Deep learning Transformers

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2024-11-24 •

The text is a guide to understanding how databases like SQLite store data. It includes a diagram to get started, a quick demo, and examples of database updates and vacuuming. The author also shares miscellaneous lessons learned an...

2024-09-25 •

The author discusses their experience with different web browsers, including Safari, Chrome, and Arc, and how they customized the keyboard shortcuts to copy URLs. They provide detailed steps on how to create an Apple Script to cop...

2020-02-29 •

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2019-10-25 •

The text discusses the author's passion for programming and the intrinsic value it holds for them, despite the fact that they rarely use their extensive knowledge in their professional career.

2019-10-11 •

The author discusses their favorite Rust function, std::mem::drop, which is used to free or deallocate a value. They explain how ownership and lifetimes in Rust make this function useful and unique, providing predictability and pe...

2019-09-17 •

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2019-05-29 •

The author reflects on the wealth disparity between first world and third world countries, particularly India, and shares book suggestions on economics and wealth of nations.

2019-05-10 •

The text is a review of the book 'Amsterdam, A history of the world's most liberal city'. It discusses the city's unique attitude towards social issues, human rights, and liberalism. The book covers the history of Amsterdam, inclu...

2019-05-04 •

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2019-01-13 •

The author shares the lessons learned as a Platform Engineer at Monzo, focusing on the company's culture, scaling teams and code, good orientation, scaling infrastructure, technical debt, and monitoring. The author emphasizes the ...