Alex Savin

How does a model becomes something that we could deploy to live?

I’m not an MLOps engineer.

I’ve been using Flickr since 2008.

It’s been just over a year since I’ve migrated to Voyager as my main keyboard.

Unlike a few lucky engineers enjoying tokenmaxxing, most of us are living within the constraints of a token budget.

There are famously 3 stages of debugging networking issues.

I’ve been catching up on AI engineering talks from all the conferences that are happening as we speak.

If anything, I welcome our new AI overlords.

I’m calling this a conference, but with 15000 attendees and 500 speakers it wasn’t something I was truly prepared for.

If I had to pick one takeaway from the massive dev conference in Berlin last week it’ll be - adopt agentic product development or go out of business.

I’m in Berlin this week, and one thing I want to write about is bottle deposits.

Sometimes getting your change all the way to production feels like crossing a finishing line after a marathon.

Tom Blomfield is a bit of a legend here in the UK.

I’m a huge fan of public libraries.

LP as in Long Play record.

My first job out of uni was working for the hottest company in the world.

Slack is the TikTok of your working day.

They say when interviewing for a job at NASA you are asked to name as many mistakes as you can from a 1998 movie Armageddon.

Intro I’m a UK based full-stack software engineer and a tech lead with over 20 years of industry experience.

I’ve been playing with the new Slack SDK - based on Deno and Typescript.

Most of software testing always been fairly deterministic.

I’ve been gradually restoring a 35 years old Acorn Archimedes computer.

For the past 10 years, I’ve been mostly writing JavaScript.

Github Actions are gaining more popularity, thanks to them being right next door to your repository.

One of the most important things you could be doing as a tech lead is making sure there are plenty of sandboxes.

This is going to be partially an appreciation blog, and partially aspirational.

Python is one of the most popular languages in the world - not the least thanks to its application in ever growing popularity of ML and data science.

Hello!

TLDR: You can run tests on production.

I love chess.

It’s been 8 years now since we moved to the British Island, and in all these years most of the island was sort of neglected by us.

I’ve been observing this pattern for a while.

Let’s talk data.

This blog is not about how to integrate Stripe or arrange payments.

It is time to migrate my self-hosted standalone blog to a more modern engine.

Code documentation has always been a controversial topic.

“Idempotency is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.” - Wikipedia This might not sound particularly exciting, but it is

“But is this database atomic?”

My current company - a UK energy startup - has always had this ongoing remote work mindset.

“What, you’re not using Instagram?

What is your release pipeline?

I wonder if my blog publishing pipeline still work, as the last blog post was about couple of years ago.

Some of my highlights and notes on the recent conference in Bratislava. 3 days, 2 tracks, lots of cake and some Angular.

I should probably explain why there are no fresh blogs here.

We’re off to the epic trip in Russia, and I’m implementing a new season of the daily vlog. 5 episodes released so far, much more to go.

It’s early summer morning.

TLR means twin lens reflex.

There are so many words written on the topic of Brexit that I was going to just ignore the issue and move on.

One of the basic needs when dealing with governmental services for a person is to prove your current place of residency.

I’ve got my CV1 order now about 2 months ago and been playing with it semi-actively.