Faizan Rashid
Working in ad tech
Ad tech companies live in a world where there is no such thing as complete honesty. If there was ever a place where the nice guys finish last it would be ad tech. The companies that bring value are the ones living in the grey area, where they dip their...
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Flatbuffers
In this post I’m going to talk about a new serialization library I started using recently. Flatbuffers although less flexible than protobufs, provide a huge performance boost and was exactly what I needed to reduce memory usage for my application. My experience with flatbuffers involves building the buffer in Python...
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Indian wells visualization
Late saturday night/Sunday morning with everyone excited about the cricket match between Pakistan and Ireland, I had an urge to check what was going on in the Tennis world. Knowing Indian Wells had just started, I quickly needed to find who all my favourite players will be playing. Looking at...
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Fun with ray tracers
For my last assignment of computer graphics we were tasked with creating a ray tracer program. Initially it seemed very tedious but as I got into coding and actually understanding what was going on it quickly became one of my favourite projects I’ve ever done in university. So lets get...
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