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Boxers for Men That Actually Breathe: A Summer 2026 Survival Guide
When summer hits in India, comfort stops being a luxury and becomes a necessity. The rising temperatures, humidity, and long days can make even the simplest outfits feel heavy and uncomfortable. While most men focus on lightweight shirts and airy trousers, one essential often gets overlooked: inner comfort. That’s where choosing the right boxers for men makes all the difference.
Vacation-Ready Men’s Joggers: 2026 Travel Style Essentials
Packing for a vacation in 2026 looks very different from how it did a few years ago. Comfort is no longer a compromise. Style is no longer optional. Today’s traveler wants outfits that feel good during long flights, look sharp in photos, and transition easily from airport lounges to city streets. That is exactly where joggers for men have become a travel essential.
I Tried Shackets for Men from Beyoung - Here’s Why They’re Trending This Year
Fashion trends come and go, but every once in a while, something practical enters the scene and quietly becomes a wardrobe essential. That is exactly how I feel about shackets for men this year. I had been seeing them everywhere on social media, at airports, in cafés, and even at casual office meetups. At first, I was unsure whether they were just another short-lived trend. But after trying shackets for men from Beyoung myself, I understood why they are gaining so much attention.
Oversized Tees and Joggers for Men: The Ultimate 2026 Combo
If there is one outfit combination that has quietly taken over wardrobes in 2026, it is oversized tees paired with joggers for men. What started as a comfort-first look has now become a proper style statement. From college campuses to airport lounges and even casual Fridays at work, this combo feels effortless yet put together.
Beyoung Shackets Review: Lightweight, Stylish & Everyday-Friendly
If there’s one piece of clothing that has quietly worked its way into my daily wardrobe, it’s the shacket. A perfect blend between a shirt and a jacket, shackets have become my go-to choice for layering, especially during the months when the weather can’t decide if it wants to be warm or chilly. I’ve tried a few brands over time, but recently, I got my hands on the shackets from Beyoung, and after wearing them for a couple of weeks, I wanted to share an honest review.
Tried and Tested: My Honest Review of the Top Men’s Fashion Brands in India
Over the last few years, men's fashion in India has really changed. It used to be just formal shirts, simple pants, and maybe a kurta now and then. Now, there's a ton of options for casual wear, streetwear, fusion looks, and even clothes that are good for the planet. With so many brands popping up both online and in stores, shopping for guys' clothes can be exciting – but also kind of confusing. I've always wanted to check out different brands and see if they're as good as their ads look.
Why Influence Accounting Redefines Marketing
For decades, marketing has operated inside a black box. Businesses spend billions chasing attention - but how do we know what each dollar achieves? Metrics like impressions, clicks, and conversions offer fragments of the story, yet the actual chain of causality - "this dollar of spend produced that dollar of influence and led to this much income" - remains unresolved. This lack of clarity isn't a minor annoyance; it's the central bottleneck preventing businesses from optimizing ROI.
Nature's Blueprint for Superintelligence
When we think of intelligence, we usually imagine a single mind - a human brain, a computer, or now an AI model. But nature has always offered another kind of intelligence, one that doesn't live inside a single head but emerges from the collective actions of many. This is Swarm Intelligence. What Is Swarm Intelligence? Swarm Intelligence is the phenomenon where simple agents - each with limited individual capability - collectively display behavior far more complex than the sum of their parts.
From Sensors to CoPilots: Why Selltype is building the Future of Revenue Execution
Even AI-powered Analytics show you turbulence. Selltype is the CoPilot that helps you fly through it. We’re building Selltype because the way companies measure revenue is broken. CRMs log contacts. Analytics dashboards show what happened. MMMs guess what might have worked. Meanwhile, modern revenue teams are distributed, made up of humans, contractors, creators, and AI — all collaborating across channels. That mismatch wastes billions and leaves real influence invisible.
Feature Platform - On Lakehouse
An Idea to build a feature platform on Real-Time Lakehouse A feature platform is a critical component for machine learning (ML) systems, enabling feature registration, online feature serving, offline feature serving, and a feature store to manage and serve feature data efficiently.
System Design - Avoiding Overloading
Load/Traffic Shedding, Rate Limiting & Backpressure What happens if our service is overloaded? Best case scenario — it starts to respond with longer and longer response times Worst case scenario — it starts to error and ultimately fail. So we want to avoid overloading. But we can’t just scale our resource all the time. Hence, we need to somehow limit the load so that it’s not “over” loaded. To do so, we can use — Load/Traffic Shedding, Rate Limiting & Backpressure.
Feature Store Architecture
A modern, scalable Feature Store architecture One of the main challenges in MLOps is connecting up the different phases of the model’s lifetime: (1) creating features from raw data, (2) training the model, and (3) making predictions (inference) on new data. In large organizations, these phases can span different teams: from data analytics to data science to infrastructure teams. A feature store is a specialized repository for machine learning features.
Managed ML platforms
Comparing managed machine learning platforms Databricks is an integrated data analytics platform that accelerates innovation by unifying data engineering, data science, machine learning, and analytics. Key Features: A collaborative workspace for data scientists and engineers. Integrated with popular data sources and file systems. Supports popular languages like Python, SQL, R, and Scala. Offers MLflow, an open-source platform to manage the ML lifecycle.
Top 10 Shirt Styles Every Indian Man Should Own in 2025
When it comes to everyday fashion, shirts are often the foundation of a man's wardrobe. Whether it's a regular office day, a family function, or a casual meetup with friends, finding the right shirt can make all the difference. In 2025, Indian men's fashion continues to evolve, blending comfort with style, and shirts are leading the way. From classic button-downs to more relaxed, trendy fits, the market is full of choices.
Matrix Traversal & Searching
Matrix traversal & searching related question Given a matrix of MxN find whether a number exists in the matrix. Approach We simply have to traverse the matrix element-wise and check. We can use two for loop, one for row and one for column, and check for each row and each column whether the element matches the target.
File formats for AI-ML workloads
Introduction to Lance, Nimble & Bullion Parquet file format, while great for analytics, struggles with ML needs. ML workloads present the following unique challenges: Sparse Data: ML datasets often include sparse features, which Parquet handles inefficiently due to limited encoding options. Wide Tables: Feature engineering requires tables with thousands of columns, where Parquet’s metadata parsing becomes a bottleneck.
Dynamic Programming - Patterns (Part I)
Amit Singh Rathore · Follow 6 min read · -- Patterns and examples with solution We will discuss the following three patterns. Fibonacci Sequence Longest common Subsequence Longest Increasing Subsequence The Fibonacci sequence pattern is useful when the solution to a problem depends on the solutions of smaller instances of the same problem.
Dynamic Programming - Patterns (Part II)
Amit Singh Rathore · Follow 5 min read · -- Patterns and examples with solution We will discuss the following three patterns. 1/0 knapsack Unbounded Knapsack Palindromic subsequence Knapsack problems are combinatorial optimization problems. In 0–1 Knapsack we either take an item as a whole or not at all (no repitition) In unbounded item first picked for the knapsack can be chosen again in the next iteration.
Dynamic Programming - Patterns (Part III)
Amit Singh Rathore · Follow 4 min read · -- Patterns and examples with solution We will discuss the following three patterns. Kadane’s Algo Matrix Chain Multiplication Count Distinct Ways Kadane’s Algorithm is primarily used for solving the Maximum Subarray Problem and its variations where the problem asks to optimize a contiguous subarray within a one-dimensional numeric array.
Government Surveillance: The Battle Over Digital Privacy Rights
Amit Rathore · Follow 5 min read · -- In an age where almost every aspect of life is digitized, a heated battle is brewing—one that pits government surveillance against the fundamental right to privacy. Across the world, lawmakers are pushing for greater access to encrypted messaging apps, personal location data, and private online interactions. Their argument? National security and crime prevention.
AI: The Revolution Reshaping Our World
Amit Rathore · Follow 2 min read · -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic dream—it’s here, changing our lives in ways we never imagined. From personal assistants like Siri and Alexa to self-driving cars and advanced medical diagnostics, AI is shaping the world faster than ever. But is it a miracle or a monster? Let’s explore! The Magic of AI Imagine waking up to an AI-powered alarm that adjusts based on your sleep cycle.
The Ultimate Home Entertainment Setup: Bean Bags as Media Room Must-Haves
Amit Rathore · Follow 11 min read · -- Classic Teardrop Bean Bags with Beans India In today’s fast‐paced world, the way we experience home entertainment is changing dramatically. Gone are the days when stiff, formal seating defined our living rooms. Instead, comfort, flexibility, and style have taken center stage—especially when it comes to creating a dedicated media room. One trend that has emerged as a game changer in home decor is the use of bean bags.
Why Buying a Bean Bag with Beans is the Best Choice for Comfort in India
Amit Rathore · Follow 5 min read · -- When it comes to home comfort and modern furniture trends, bean bags have become a go-to choice for people in India. Whether you’re looking to add a cozy corner to your living room, a relaxing chair for your office, or a fun seating option for your gaming room, bean bag chairs offer the perfect blend of style, comfort, and flexibility.
System Design Series - Network Protocols
Amit Singh Rathore · Follow 7 min read · -- Refresher on Key Network Protocols HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. It is an application layer protocol designed to encode and transport information between networked devices and runs on top of other layers of the network protocol stack. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP. HTTPS is encrypted in order to increase the security of data transfer.
LLM - Security Challenges & Guardrails
Language Model (LM) applications play a crucial role in various fields, from natural language processing to chatbots and virtual assistants. As the adoption of these applications grows, so does the need for robust security measures to protect against potential threats.
Ways to improve RAG
Advance RAG strategies to get more out of RAG The index is the object that holds our retrieval system. The standard approach to RAG involves embeddings and similarity search. The response lacks specificity. We may need to explore keyword-based searches for cases where we need specific answers like product ID from the catalog. We also look at a hybrid approach we can use a keyword-based index for queries relating to a specific product, but rely on embeddings for general answers.
Ray - Distributed computing framework for ML workloads
Ray is an open-source framework to easily scale up AI & Python applications across multiple nodes in a cluster. It provides a simple API for building distributed, parallelized applications, especially for deep learning applications. Ray Cluster is a set of Ray Worker Nodes connected to a common Ray Head node. It can be fixed-size or they can autoscale dynamically. Raylet are distributed scheduler. It uses p2p communication.
AI and cloud: A powerful combination for business transformation (Guest blog from KPMG)
Author: Amit Rathore, Head of Cloud Transformation and Engineering, KPMG India Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing are two of the most disruptive technologies transforming businesses across industries. AI enables machines to perform tasks that require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognising images, making predictions, and optimising decisions.
The power of compounding: Your key to long-term wealth creation
wealth creation falls on one’s own capable shoulders. Famous author Idowu Koyenikan once said, Every individual wishes to have wealth, which can empower them to lead a financially independent and secure life filled with the luxuries they crave – be it a world tour, a stately abode or simply the freedom to lead their life on their terms.
Bitwise Manipulation Refresher
Manipulate data at its lowest level. In this blog we some key concepts about bitwise operators that every software engineer should be familiar with. Get ready to get into the world of bits & bytes. In any positional system to represent a number, we use base, which represents the number of digits available. The Base-ten numeral system, also known as the decimal system, represents numbers using 10 digits (0 to 9).
Wedding Rituals in the Bhojpuri region
Marriage is way more than ties between two individuals Weddings in the Bhojpuri area are traditional, rustic, and linked to agriculture. There are various rituals that are performed in a Bhojpuri wedding, in this blog I will list down most of rituals. Disclaimer - Rituals vary between region, caste and locality. These are based on my recollection of wedding in Gopalganj. Chheka | Barachha This ceremony is the official engagement that takes place at the bride's house.
Traditional Media vs Social Media: A Toxic Love Affair
The traditional media is stuck in a toxic love affair with social media platforms. Nowadays, 62 percent of adults in the US use social media to get news. At the same time, 50 percent of social media users report having shared news stories, images or videos on their social media feeds, and 46 percent have discussed a news issue or event. On one hand traditional media companies are struggling to monetize, as readers flock to social media and other new digital media platforms.
Data Engineering Design Patterns
some ideas put together In previous blogs on data engineering, I have discussed ETL, ELT, and CDC design patterns, in this blog I will discuss a few more design patterns that I have seen in the industry. Zero copy Data transfer System Level — Zero copy refers to copying the data directly from the disk file to the network card device without the need for the application. In the new approach, multiple context switching is avoided. transferTo in Java uses sendfile() of Linux system.
Union Find - Data Structure in Python
A Union-Find/Disjoint set data structure is used to maintain a set of elements partitioned into a number of mutually non-overlapping subsets. Disjoint Set —A disjoint set is a group of sets where no item can be in more than one set. In other words, if we take any two sets from the Disjoint set then their intersection will result in an empty set. In even simpler terms a disjoint set is a data structure where similar elements are kept in a single group.
The Basics of AWS VPC
VPC components snapshot The above diagram depicts the major components of the AWS VPC service. Let us go through them one by one. VPC Virtual Private Cloud is a service from AWS which enables us to launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network (similar to a local data center). It gives us complete control over our virtual networking environment, including resource placement (which AZ), connectivity(route table, peering), and security (Security Group & NACL). It is a regional service.
Sorting Algorithms - With Python
Sorting means putting items in a particular order. That particular order is determined by the comparison property of the elements. In case of integers we say smaller number comes first and bigger number appear later. Arranging items in particular order improves the searching of the element. Hence sorting has heavy usage in computer science. In this blog we will go through common sorting algorithms. We will see implementation of each in python.
Data Platform - An Introduction
Photo by Franki Chamaki on Unsplash Data platform is an integrated technology solution, which makes data accessible. A good data platform helps in creating information and making that information in people’s hand who can use this information. Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. A working Data platform will consist of five major services/frameworks.
Securing AWS Cloud
Image source google.com Cloud adoption is like dating. If you rush, a security incident will be around the corner. To avoid that we need to have a good strategy. In this blog we will see some pointers to have a secure relationship with cloud. Infrastructure as Code Manual deployments are prone to misconfigurations. We need to develop a culture of minimizing console usage for deployments.
System Design — Creating AWS SNS
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash In this blog we will try to build a miniature version of AWS Simple Notification Service. Problem Statement Requirement Gathering Building MVP Building for Resiliency and Availability Simple notification service allows user to publish messages to topic. A user subscribe to topic(s). Whenever a message is published to the topic by publisher, subscriber receives the message published in the topic. Both publisher and consumer are unaware of each other.
Windows Event Log to the Dark Side
Event log is a component of Microsoft Windows which provides a central logging service for the operation system, logs helped fixing problems and provided many traces and evidences for forensics.
Hive Optimization - Quick Refresher
Photo by Jonathan Farber on Unsplash SET hive.partition.pruning=strict; Data organization plays a crucial role in query performance. Depending upon whether you follow star schema or De-normalized(preferred) data warehouse Partitioning and Bucketing helps in improving the query performance. Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) vs Parquet Columnar file formats allows you to reduce the read operations in queries by allowing each column to be accessed individually.
Spark OOM Error - Closeup
Does the following look familiar when running Spark? java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Given the fact that Spark’s power comes from in memory processing. Its common to have above error every now and then. In this blog We will explore why and how of this. Spark Unified Memory management — a detour. Before we discuss various OOM error lets just do a refresher of how executor memory(heap memory) is managed in spark. So as we see in above pic executor memory is composed of 3important memory blocks.
AWS Config - Compliance as Code
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash If compliance is one of your priorities while working on AWS Cloud then Config is a good place to start. In this post, I will discuss Config service in detail. Before we start to look into the service we need to do initial setup. This setup includes configuring the recorder and setting up delivery channel.
Lambda Internals - Exploration
What happens when we create a lambda function in AWS? Let's find out. Photo by Vadim Sherbakov on Unsplash Cloud provides an abstraction to a lot of complex stuff. And it is good, but I like the details, the internals. With an aim to see how lambda service works I watched an awesome video from AWS on the Lambda service. This post tries to summarize things. When we talk about lambda, the majority of us mean the function itself.
Tum Na Hoti Toh - तुम ना होती तो - Amar Ujala Kavya
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The Importance Of Pursuing Clinical Trial Costs
By Amit Rathore There’s no doubt that clinical trials are becoming more complex in terms of regulatory compliance and scope of study. The FDA is stressing more on data integrity, and in December 2018, it finalized its draft of “Data Integrity and Compliance with cGMP Guidance.” The number of drug GMP warning letters has continuously increased; the FDA issued almost 200 percent more warning letters in 2018 as compared to 2015.
Why I am supporting the PressCoin ICO - Alastair Thompson
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working behind the scenes getting to know the team behind Presscoin.com, the latest participant in the remarkable Initial Coin Offering (ICO) boom which is rocking financial markets around the world, and which may well herald an inflection point in the history of money. Scoop Co-editor Joseph Cederwall brought PressCoin to my attention initially.
What Is A Cryptocurrency?
A ledger is a book of record-keeping for tracking contracts, payments, buy-sell deals or movement of assets or property in an organisation. In a centralised ledger, a single entity controls what transactions are added to the ledger. This means, for instance, that a bank has complete control. For example, it can directly assess a late-fee, a penalty charge, or a transaction fee, or any other charge, and commit this transaction to their ledger.
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