Author - Sachin Kalaskar

27Jun

Can Artificial intelligence help you build a successful business?

Artificial intelligence is taking over businesses by storm.  Startups need to also utilize AI benefits to be successful in their chosen business. AI can benefit them in the following areas Employee Productivity Tedious repetitive tasks can be automated using AI, freeing the employees to concentrate on interesting work, thus increasing their productivity and satisfaction. Customer Relationship Management Artificial intelligence can give a good boost...

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22Jun

Conversational AI: Inside Rasa’s open-source approach

As the post-pandemic world is pushed more towards engaging customers online, leveraging chatbots and messengers has become a priority for organizations. But a chatbot with few static lines of fixed responses is not sufficient to handle the dynamics of customer conversations. If you want to create a successful automated chat program using Rasa, you need to understand how it functions....

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20Jun

How AI adoption is accelerating for startups

Pandemic provided the catalyst required for the businesses to change the way they operated. Digitization, which many mainstream companies were just talking about on their road map has suddenly been accelerated. This calamity accelerated the adoption of AI and analytics by established businesses. According to Harvard Business Review, 52% of companies have accelerated their AI adoption.  AI adoption is helping...

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15Jun

Fault tolerance in microservices

One fine day - or in fact, not-so-fine day - our brand new microservice-based app stopped functioning during off-hours. When we started working, we got to know the shocking news, and then started the investigations aka debugging! After hours of impatient slogging, the root cause came out to be a micro-service that would write to a telemetry service! It...

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14Jun

How to survive the recession… and come out ahead

“Makarand, I am worried about the impact of the global recession. There is a lot of talk going on. Some companies have stopped hiring in anticipation. Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with it?” “Yash, thanks for bringing it up. Yes, it is something we must consider. No one knows really knows when it will start, how...

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13Jun

How to build an ethical startup that makes a positive impact

What does Being ethical mean? It’s a hard-to-define term. Especially for a business. It is not something that a company can start after it reaches a particular size. It has to be part of the company’s DNA right from the start. Ethical startups are seen to be acting on two aspects. One is ethics in their business dealings and the...

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08Jun

Improving performance of APIs

APIs are common if a not inevitable component in most of the application landscapes. APIs have their own benefits of being an idempotent unit of work independent of the rest of the world. But performance is one of the core expectations from any API being developed. Adding resources like CPU, Memory, and Server may not be the right approach...

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07Jun

Succession planning: the importance of planning early

Yash, have you thought about who will run your business after you?” “Are you serious? I just started this business a few months back. I have a long time to retire. Why should I worry about it just now? ” “Yes, but you want to scale it big, don't you? Do you think you alone will be able to manage it?” Succession planning is required to...

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06Jun

Why it’s important to be ethical even in a startup

Startups are under pressure to deliver on many fronts. They need to make sure they have excellent value preposition, They are in hurry to take their solution to the market as soon as possible, and they are working hard on getting the funding and keeping the company afloat from month to month. In this day to day nitty-gritty, the startups...

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01Jun

Command on Command Line

Being a Software Engineer is not just writing code, debugging, and deploying them. At times one has to use the command line and remotely operate on a server to get system details to monitor the system, change some configurations, or sometimes could be to find network-related issues. Command-line basically allows users to perform all the actions they could perform...

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