Year Review - 2024
Long time, no year review :)
Harshit Prasad
Tech Lead - @Blinkit, specialising in distributed cloud systems - platform, data, AI and reliability engineering. Loves to talk about tech, travel, anime and always ready to explore new things.
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2024
Land of Buddha - Thailand
With Thailand offering free visas, I thought, why not take the opportunity to explore this incredible country and immerse myself in its rich culture? In t...
Enhance Search Performance At Scale With OpenSearch at Blinkit
Tech conference hosted by OpenSearch community in Bengaluru, India 2024 as Speaker.
Pearl Of Indian Ocean - Sri Lanka
After my trip to Dubai, I was casually browsing the internet when I stumbled upon Sri Lanka tourism. To my surprise, the Sri Lankan government was offerin...
2023
Abu Dhabi, Dubai and 13,000 Ft. Skydive
I had the privilege of attending PyCon in Dubai as a conference speaker, which was an incredible experience. Alongside the event, I also explored several ...
Contributing to Open Source is awesome!
Good to go guide on how to contribute in open source communities!
Developing Culture to Write Reliable and Performant Services At Scale
My international tech conference talk in PyCon Dubai 2023.
Observability Driven Development and Culture
My international tech conference talk in PyCon Australia 2023.
2022
Qatar and FIFA World Cup 2022
After a prolonged period of COVID-related travel restrictions, I had the opportunity to travel once again and attend the FIFA World Cup ‘22 in Doha, Qatar...
Journey of Zero Downtime Migration of Elasticsearch at Blinkit
Explains how I carried out the plan to migrate our Elasticsearch datastore which powered search and discovery on Blinkit app.
2021
High Performance Data Processing with Python, Kafka and Elasticsearch
My international tech conference talk in EuroPython 2021.
Year Review - 2020
My Self Retrospection of the Year 2020.
2020
Building Production Ready Search - Python and Elasticsearch
My international tech conference talk in PyCon Sweden 2020.
2019
My Trip to Japan and Open Source Summit
I attended an open source conference in Tokyo, Japan and visited many other famous places in Tokyo and experienced Japanese culture. This blog mostly cove...
2018
GSoC 2018: Final Work Report
Conclusion of GSoC 2018 work report - my project status, future work and work experience with CERN mentors.
Backpropagation Feature in LSTM Network
Learn how backpropagation works in LSTM network.
Forward Propagation Feature in LSTM Network
Learn how forward propagation works in LSTM network. Explanation of LSTM layer design, forward propagation in LSTM network and what challenges were faced.
RNN and LSTM Networks
Explains what and how of RNN and LSTM in Deep Learning.
Internship at CERN, Switzerland
My starting summer internship (GSoC 2018) experience.
First International Trip To Singapore, Malaysia and FOSSASIA Conference
My very first international trip journey started with Singapore and Malaysia! I attended an open source conference, invited and organised by FOSSASIA. Wit...
Deploy Static Page using Surge Tool
Explains how to set deploy static web pages using surge tool.
2017
Experience with Google Code-In 2017
I was a GCI Mentor in the year 2017 with FOSSASIA organization. This blog covers up my experience with the GCI participants.
Creating A Better Responsive Design in Susper
Explains how to make your web application responsive for all devices.
Implementing Advanced Search Feature in Susper
Explains how I introduced advanced search feature in Susper.
Creating Dockerfile for YaCy Server
Learn to create a dockerfile and deploy your backend with several dependencies.
Implementing Text-To-Speech Feature in Susper
Explains how I implemented text-to-speech feature in Susper search.
Adding Transition Effect to Voice Search in Susper
Explains how to transition effect in Susper voice search was implemented.
Designing Google Like Image Search Grid
Learn how to make resizable image grid with different sizes.
Refactor Dropdown in Susper
Sharing learnings of refactoring dropdown menus in Susper.
Mock Testing in Angular using MockBackend
Learn how to write mock tests for a Angular application.
Filtering Queries using Apache Solr in Susper
Explains how to filter documents in Apache Solr.
Setting up Code Coverage Tool
Learn to setup third party code coverage tools in your project.
Implementing Voice Search In Susper
Learn to create your own voice search capability using Typescript.
Discovering Default Search Provider in Firefox
Explains how to set default search engine in a browser.
Deploying Angular application using GitHub Pages
Learn how to deploy Angular application using Github Pages.