8 posts tagged with "learning"

Recently in our main application built with Angular 19, we encountered a perplexing issue: after deploying to a WebLogic server, certain functionalities on the UI broke completely without any error messages. Below is the technical deep dive into how we diagnosed and resolved the issue, which revolved around unexpected empty chunk files generated during the Angular build process.

Introduction — When the Error First Appeared​

Some of the functionalities on the UI broke completely. There was no console errors or warnings. The angular production build was successful without any errors, yet the deployed frontend failed immediately.

This was specific to Weblogic server. The application worked fine on any other server like Tomcat, websphere etc.

This led us into a detailed debugging journey across build pipelines, server configurations, and module graphs.

Angular Design Patterns and Best Practices​

Why choose Angular ?​

1. Batteries Included

• Angular development team has already made serveral decisions for you.

2. Google Support

• Angular is backed by Google, which means it has a large community and a lot of resources available.

3. Community

• Angular has a large community of developers who are willing to help you with any questions you may have.

4. Tooling

• Eg. Angular CLI, Testing

5. Typescript

• TypeScript is a superset of the JavaScript language that adds type checking and other features to the language, ensuring a better developer experience and security for web development.

6. RxJS

• Library for reactive programming using Observables, which makes it easier to work with asynchronous data streams.
• RxJS also provides mechanism for state management, which is a common requirement in modern web applications.

7. Webpack

• Webpack is a very powerful and versatile bundler, and it is thanks to it that the framework manages to make some interesting optimizations such as tree shaking and lazy loading of bundles

What are AI Agents?​

AI agents are (semi) autonomous systems that interact with environments, make decisions, and perform tasks on behalf of users.

• Autonomy: Can perform tasks without continous human intervention
• Decision-making: Use data to analyze and choose actions
• Adaptation: Learn and improve over time with feedback

Eg. ChatGPT is an Agent on top of an LLM (like GPT-4o)

Agents vs LLLMs​

Agent - Perform specific tasks and makes decisions based on its environemnt LLMs - Focuse on understanding and generating human-like text

Why AI Agents might be Essential​

• Automate repetitive tasks, freeing up human resources for more complex activities
• Hande dynamicand real-time environments like finance or customer service
• Tailor user experience based on individual preferences

Artificial Intelligence​

AI is a vast field focused on creating intelligent systems that can perform tasks usually requiring human intelligence, such as perception, reasoning, and decision-making. It encompasses a range of techniques and approaches, including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI.

Machine Learning (ML)​

ML is a subset of AI focused on developing methods that enable machines to learn from data and enhance their performance on specific tasks. It is commonly considered the simplest form of AI.

Neural Networks​

A neural network is a computational model inspired by the human brain, consisting of interconnected layers of nodes or neurons that process and transform data through learned patterns and weights. It is commonly used in machine learning to recognize complex patterns, make predictions and solve tasks by training on large datasets.

Deep Learning​

Deep learning is subset of machine learning that utilizes multi-layered neural networks to automatically learn and extract features from large datasets. These deep network can model complex patterns and perform tasks such as image and speech recognition with high accuracy by heirarchically processing data through multiple layers.

Computer visiion​

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret and understand visual information from the world, such as images and videos. It involves the use of algorithms and models to analyze and make decisions based on visual data, often mimicking human visual perception and cognition.

What started as a curiosity turned into a desirable hobby. After having discovered Canva in 2022, I started taking insipiration from various designs in Canva and Pinterest and created simple graphics for Watsapp Status and Instagram. Having this on hands experience, it helped me understand how to make something attractive and eye catching within a limited space and with limited use of words.

I enjoy spending hours on canva, but at the same time, I have gained creative and valuable skills while doing it on hands.

I came across this course from Robin Williams about principles of Great design and it surely benefited me from my existing knowledge. The course is well structured and here are some of the important points taken from the course.

The principle of Proximity​

Group related items together. Physical closeness implies a relationship. Proximity does not mean that everything is close together - it means elements that are intellectually connected should be visually connected.

A group of individuals with common interest plan to meet to share their knowledge and network. This is my definition of a Meetup. I have read several blogs about meetup's but never attended any. I did not plan anything nor did I know about this meetup until a day before. It was just on the spur of the moment. I am glad, I attended this meetup and hence sharing my experience through this blog post.

I have no clue what made me register on the meetup.com website. It was Friday evening, I was about to wrap up my daily office work. I pointed my browser to meetup.com and registered. The website popped at me a meetup that was happening on Saturday 05th of Oct 2019 from 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM. The host were sharing their experience about React with Typescript == React on Steroids. Interesting. I wanted to learn about it. Unfortunately, RSVP were closed. "I could always watch about such topic on YouTube", I thought.

Surprisingly, someone in the comment had mentioned that no need of RSVP, everyone is welcome. I did not have any excuse but attend.

Smartphone's and in turn social media plays a very important role in our life, without which we would be stranded. Right? To a certain extent it is the truth. We use social media because we want to be connected. But we forget the toll it takes on our life through its continuous usage. In this post, I go through my journey from a social media addict to being a social media ghost.

First, a little background. I had an important feature delivery in the coming week but due to personal work, had to take two days off on a short notice. This meant, I had to complete my current development tasks. "No Problemo !", I thought. My inspiration for working overnight comes form the movie, "The Social Network". I have mentioned about how amazing the soundtrack of the movie is, umpteen times, here on this blog. This essay is my retrospection per se on working overnight.

Work commitments of an important feature delivery and family never go in hand. You will spend more time working compared to the time spent with family or honing your hobbies, the universal accepted law for the software professional by the software professional, always holds true.