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Very interesting take to counteract the 23andme data leak

Forcing you to give consent to receive a newsletter in order to download the ebook is not the way to go

Being that the data is queried from a web app through HTTP, the shorter the better. Around 1 sec should be alright, but 6 - 8 definitely isn't

It is in our case. This is a service which is very seasonal, so it may be used during a couple of days each month only. Having a bunch of instances mostly idle would definitely be …

When I worked on this I used this article as a reference: https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-python-packaging/ and also ended up with a huge image. What that article didn't men…

Our problem is that we have a team of data scientists who are familiar with Python, plus a decent set of custom tools written in it, so changing languages isn't an option

We've been packaging pandas in a lambda which is used to perform some calculations, but being a 50 MB zip file makes cold starts of about 6-8 secs. We're lucky that the service has…

From one of the video comments: "They (Maria João, conductor, and orchestra) had recorded 6 months earlier three Mozart concerti. This lunch concert was the rehearsal for the eveni…