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2023

The great migration from Redshift to Snowflake
Faire was founded in 2017 and has since then, grown rapidly from a handful of people to over 1000+ team members, supporting over 600K…
The CraftRafay Aleem
Technical blog post on Faire's Redshift to Snowflake migration

2019

Predicting Stable Portfolios Using Machine Learning
Muhammad Rafay Aleem, Nandita Dwivedi, Kiran
SFU Professional Computer ScienceNandita Dwivedi
Technical blog post as part of my Master in CS @ SFU

2017

How we changed our payment service provider over an A/B test via HAProxy
Imagine you have to rewrite an existing web service to move to a new payment gateway (PSP or payment service provider) due to various…
OLX EngineeringRafay Aleem
Technical blog post on A/B testing payment gateway at OLX Classifieds

2016

Apache Kafka Producer Benchmarks — Java vs. Jython vs. Python
31 Mar 2016
Uncanny RecursionsRafay Aleem
Blog post on evaluating benchmarks on various Kafka clients
Live MySQL Schema Changes on Amazon RDS with Percona — A Walkthrough
At dubizzle OLX, we recently reached a roadblock on a project where we had to change schema on around 130 tables in our production database…
OLX EngineeringRafay Aleem
Technical blog post on live MYSQL migrations at OLX Classifieds
Interfacing Jython with Kafka 0.8.x
19 Mar 2016
Uncanny RecursionsRafay Aleem
Overview of interfacing Jython with Kafka to enable working with Python while overcoming native Python client limitations