Projects | Akshay Malhotra

Elastic Application Using Cloud Computing

An application that scales itself based on real-time request volume and CPU usage.

Problem: Applications need to handle variable load without manual intervention, and the scaling approach needed to work across more than one kind of cloud environment.
Role: Designed and built the application and its scaling logic.
Decision: Built auto-scaling targeting both a public cloud (AWS) and a hybrid cloud (OpenStack) rather than a single provider, so the scaling logic wasn’t tied to one platform’s specific APIs.
Outcome: The application scaled automatically based on request volume and CPU usage across both AWS and OpenStack.

Cloud ComputingAWSOpenStackAuto-scaling

A simulated database comparing feature representation and indexing techniques for multimedia retrieval.

Problem: Different feature representation, indexing, and classification techniques trade off differently for multimedia storage, retrieval, and similarity search, and those trade-offs needed to be evaluated concretely rather than assumed.
Role: Built the simulation and ran the evaluation.
Decision: Compared multiple feature representation, indexing, and classification techniques against the same dataset rather than committing to a single approach upfront.
Outcome: Benchmarked similarity-search performance across techniques using a dataset of 4,000 images.

DatabasesInformation RetrievalData Indexing