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Rizwan Qaiser is the founder of Autonomous Technologies, a Vancouver-founded Shopify engineering agency. He leads the team's Shopify Plus builds, migrations and revenue audits, and writes from what those engagements show.
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Growth & Measurement
Unified marketing measurement reads one trading month three ways at once. Where the three readings agree, you can spend. Where they disagree, you have found the next thing to fix, not a number to argue about in the Monday meeting.
Growth & Measurement
Your admin dashboards are slow because one query is reading years of history on the database that serves your checkout. Most of the time an index and a nightly summary table fix it. A warehouse earns its place only when orders, inventory and ad data have to appear on the same row.
AI & Search
Prompt engineering for LLM performance is not better wording. It is pinning the inputs and settings, writing the output contract, scoring a sample of outputs against a written standard, and logging every run so you can tell drift from a bad day.
Integrations & Custom Systems
Apache Spark is the open-source engine. Databricks is a managed platform that runs it. Compare the two on cost, cluster operations and governance, and find the point where running Spark yourself stops being cheaper.
Integrations & Custom Systems
In today’s fast-paced digital world, companies must adapt quickly. Large enterprises are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance their operations. Specifically, leaders want to improve decision-making and deliver exceptional customer experiences. One groundbreaking innovation is the appli
Growth & Measurement
Autonomous Technologies brings innovation to its partners, focusing on helping them grow and scale. We deliver high-caliber solutions that solve complex problems with out-of-the-box thinking. For us, building meaningful relationships with our partners is a top priority. We produce advanced, remarkab
Growth & Measurement
It all begins with an idea. The world wants you to conform. Work 9-5. Make your 100k a year. Climb the corporate ladder. Don’t rock the boat. Leave no mark. Retire at 65, travel, and die. But for those of you who are different. A little bit weird. The round pegs. A weirdo, an odd […]
Growth & Measurement
In 2022, every business endeavor is a tech endeavor in some capacity. Digital technology is everywhere. From knowledge acquisition via Google, to communicating with customers via WhatsApp; every aspect of our business lives has come to be dominated by technology. To survive in this increasingly comp
Integrations & Custom Systems
If you’re a Python developer, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a lack of straightforward tutorials on how to create a wallet for Ethereum—especially ones that don’t assume you’re a blockchain expert. I ran into the same problem. So I rolled up my sleeves, figured it out, and now I’m sharing the
Growth & Measurement
There is no more art, music, or love. Creativity is simply not allowed and those that violate this rule are simply executed. This is the dystopia of Kurt Wimmer’s 2002 cult classic, Equilibrium. The movie is a powerful example of what happens when authoritarianism attempts to quash the human spirit
Growth & Measurement
Recently I have been practicing Functional Programming with Scala and for practice, thought I would do a small project where I would automagically download the Covid-19 reports from the World Health Organization. A bit about Scala Scala (scalable language) is a statically typed, functional, object-o
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