Essays on product, strategy, and AI.https://abdullahfaruk.com/en-UShttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/jira-mandays-lead-cycle-time-and-finance-reporting/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/jira-mandays-lead-cycle-time-and-finance-reporting/One morning my product director walked up to my desk and said we would be sending finance a report every month. I said two day job. By the end of the third day I knew better.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukProduct ManagementFinOpshttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/smart-plug/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/smart-plug/A smart plug that recognises the appliance from its harmonic signature and forms a relay network with its neighbours. An undergraduate project at Yıldız Technical University, published as an IEEE paper.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukMachine LearningSoftwarehttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/tracking-my-portfolio-with-claude/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/tracking-my-portfolio-with-claude/I know nothing about finance but I do have a portfolio. For twenty days I had forecasts written and scored. Mostly I learned a word: baseline.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukAIData ScienceDecision Makinghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/focus-points-in-loyalty-programme-design/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/focus-points-in-loyalty-programme-design/What makes a loyalty programme work is not points but the feeling of status. Design notes from the tourism and retail side.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukProduct ManagementCustomer Experiencehttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/ai-in-2025-turkey-and-globally/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/ai-in-2025-turkey-and-globally/A year that started with Cursor, the late reaction of companies in Turkey, and the bill for AI strategies built on volume rather than quality.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukAIStrategyhttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/product-management-guide-1-getting-to-know-a-sector/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/product-management-guide-1-getting-to-know-a-sector/Before you build a product you have to know the sector. What to look at in a market analysis, worked through an edtech example.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukProduct Managementhttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/product-management-guide-2-core-technologies/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/product-management-guide-2-core-technologies/Agile, Kanban, prototyping, A/B tests, version control, CRM and payments. What a technical product manager needs to know and why.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukProduct Managementhttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-introduction-to-machine-learning/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-introduction-to-machine-learning/Data, datasets, and why a dataset gets split in two. The first post in the series looks at the basic concepts of machine learning.Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/rabbitmq-and-the-amqp-protocol/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/rabbitmq-and-the-amqp-protocol/Requests arriving at once were eating the memory of the machine. How a message queue solved it, and what AMQP and RabbitMQ actually are.Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukSoftwareDevOpshttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/using-portainer/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/using-portainer/Managing Docker images, containers and stacks from a browser. A step by step setup on a Google Cloud virtual machine.Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukSoftwareDevOpshttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-8-support-vector-regression/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-8-support-vector-regression/Notes I took while studying support vector regression: the epsilon margin, why it is called a support vector, and how it compares with polynomial regression.Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-7-polynomial-regression/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-7-polynomial-regression/Once a variable takes a power above 1 the line becomes a curve. Comparing linear and polynomial regression on the same dataset.Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/using-the-swagger-api-test-interface/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/using-the-swagger-api-test-interface/A few basic notes on Swagger: what it is, and how to set it up in an ASP.NET Core Web API project.Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukSoftwarehttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-6-multiple-linear-regression/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-6-multiple-linear-regression/Working with more than one independent variable: dummy variables, the P value and backward elimination.Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-5-linear-regression/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-5-linear-regression/The idea of regression, simple linear regression and the least squares method, ending with a small scikit-learn example.Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-4-feature-scaling/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-4-feature-scaling/Making the variables in a dataset comparable: normalisation and standardisation, and when to use which.Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-3-data-preprocessing/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-3-data-preprocessing/Filling missing values, turning categorical attributes into numbers, and splitting a dataset into training and test sets.Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-2-machine-learning-and-python/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/data-science-notes-2-machine-learning-and-python/The Python libraries we will use in this series: NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas and scikit-learn, and why Python at all.Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukData ScienceMachine Learninghttps://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/adding-opencv-to-a-visual-studio-project/https://abdullahfaruk.com/en/writing/adding-opencv-to-a-visual-studio-project/Download opencv-3.2.0-vc14.exe from the release page. Clicking through the installer brings up the screen below.Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbdullah FarukSoftwareComputer Vision