We’re excited to announce Grofers Tech Talks! This is an initiative towards our bid to foster an open exchange of ideas around technology. We’ve decided to keep the scope of this meetup a bit broad, to promote discussions on topics ranging from product to devops and from design to engineering.
We plan to do this every month. Each meetup will have four talks, with one or two talks by Grofers and the rest by the community. To propose talks, you can simply open an issue on this GitHub repo: https://github.com/grofers/talks. Pretty neat, right?
On April 20, we hosted the first Grofers Tech Talks meetup (or GT-squared as we’ve started to call it) in our Bangalore office. The meetup had two tracks for Engineering and Data Science, each comprising of two talks.
Introduction to Kubernetes by Adit Biswas
The meetup was kickstarted with the Engineering track, by Adit Biswas with his introductory talk on Kubernetes. He taught us about some basic concepts about containers, explained the Kubernetes architecture which was followed by a short demo. He also talked about how we use Kubernetes at Grofers scale.
Rulette: A simple and versatile rule engine by Kislay Verma
Adit’s talk was followed by a talk on Rulette by Kislay Verma. He talked about how you can simplify business rule management using Rulette, an open-source rule engine developed by him!
Extracting tabular data from PDFs using Camelot and Excalibur by Vinayak Mehta
After a short break, we started with the Data Science track. The third talk (by me) focused on how you can use Camelot and Excalibur, a Python library and a web interface developed by me, to extract tabular data from PDFs files very easily.
Introduction to Tweets Analysis in R by Abdul Majed RS
In the final talk, Abdul Majed RS showed us how we can easily analyze tweets using R. He used the tweets made about The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’s episode on Indian elections and showed us some interesting insights.
In the end, we opened the space for lightning talks before initiating a coordinated attack on pizzas. Devjyoti Patra talked about tenalisorcerer, an open-source SQL parsing and analysis framework that he’s working on.
We’re organizing Meetup #2 on 1st June (this Saturday) in our Bangalore office. You can propose talks about anything interesting that you’re working on by simply opening an issue on the GitHub repo mentioned above, we would love to hear from you.
If you’re interested in solving the kind of problems we write about on Lambda, check out our open positions here. You can follow Grofers Engineering on Twitter and Instagram to always stay updated on what we’re doing. Hope to see you at our next meetup!
Chinthakunta Sumanth Kumar Reddy is an SDE 3 at Blinkit. He joined us in March 2021 and has since helped us build a resilient application platform at Blinkit.
Jay Dihenkar is a Staff Engineer at Blinkit. He joined us in December 2020 and has helped different teams manage and streamline their build and release processes.
Avi Singh Raghuwanshi, works as an Associate Product Manager (APM) at Blinkit. He joined us on our instant delivery journey in July 2022. He previously worked on upselling and cross selling through product listing pages during his first two months.