Episode 279: 279: Scaling & Training Rails with Anand Dhillon

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Episode 279: 279: Scaling & Training Rails with Anand Dhillon

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Jul 17, 2019

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Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.

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Jul 17, 2019

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Episode 279: 279: Scaling & Training Rails with Anand Dhillon

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