Creating One Unified Calendar of all Data Science Events in the Netherlands

Over engineering with renv and github actions

Creating One Unified Calendar of all Data Science Events in the Netherlands
I enjoy learning new things about machine learning, and I enjoy meeting like minded people too. That is why I go to meetups and conferences. But not everyone I meet becomes a member of every group. So I keep sending my coworkers new events that I hear about here in the Netherlands. And it is easy to overlook a new event that comes in over email. Me individually cannot scale. So in this post I will walk you through an over engineered solution to make myself unnecessary. [Read More]

Don't Panic! a Scientific Approach to Debugging Production Failure

Your production system just broke down. What should you do now? Can you imagine your shiny application / flask app, or your API service breaking down? As a beginning programmer, or operations (or devops) person it can be overwhelming to deal with logs, messages, metrics and other possible relevant information that is coming at you at such a point. And when something fails you want it to get back to working state as fast as possible. [Read More]

WTF is Kubernetes and Should I Care as R User?

Fearless to production

I’m going to give you a high overview of kubernetes and how you can make your R work shine in kubernetes. Are you, an R-user in a company that uses kubernetes? building R applications (models that do predictions, shiny applications, APIs)? curious about this whole kubernetes thing that your coworkers are talking about? somewhat afraid? Then I have the post for you! Many R users come from an academic background, statistics and social sciences. [Read More]