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Prithwish Nath

Prithwish Nath

Software Engineer

Developer, audiophile, strategy game enthusiast.

Skills & Expertise

Python
TypeScript
Apache Kafka
OpenTelemetry
React
OLAP
Polars
Pandas
vLLM

Articles by Prithwish Nath(18)

I Built a $0 Search Engine on Real Web Data

I got tired of grepping through JSON. So I built a local search index over live Google data using Python, Typesense, and Bright Data — here's how.

Jun 17, 2026data science

Turning Google into an Explorable Knowledge Graph Using Pure k-NN

How to run k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) over a merged, multi-query Google SERP corpus to find hidden semantic connections.

Jun 17, 2026machine learning

How Failing at Fantasy Baseball Made Me Fix My Cron Jobs with Temporal

Why cron jobs break under real-world conditions and how to actually fix retries, failures, and data reliability.

Jun 17, 2026devops

5 Production Stacks for Live Data Ingestion at Scale (Without Getting Blocked)

This guide shows five production-tested stacks for live data ingestion from minimal fetch + cron, up to LLM agents calling Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.

Jun 17, 2026web scraping

A Practical Guide To Entity Resolution in Python (No Database, No Machine Learning)

How to normalize, dedupe, and fuzzy-match records that refer to the same real-world entity in Python, without a database or any ML pipelines.

Jun 17, 2026data science

5 MCP Servers That Can Replace Expensive SaaS Subscriptions in 2026

Cancel PhantomBuster, ZoomInfo, Ahrefs, Zapier, Otter.ai, and Mixpanel by swapping to these open-source MCP servers in Claude and Cursor.

Jun 16, 2026artificial intelligence

Open-Source Devs Need To Ship Distribution, Not Just Code.

If you're an open-source dev, make sure AI agents like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex find, understand, and invoke your tool.

Jun 16, 2026open source

Hurl vs Postman: Git-Friendly API Testing With Proxy-Aware Egress (2026)

How to replace Postman collections with plain-text Hurl files that live in Git, run in CI, and test your API’s geo behavior from any country.

Jun 16, 2026web development

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