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Google Cloud architecture serving assets via a Load Balancer

Serving Assets via CDN with Google Cloud

Serve static content via a Google Cloud CDN to improve load times. Fine-tune your load balancer and caching to match your app’s needs.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Apr 13, 2022 • 12 min read
Google Cloud
Featured image for "Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp" tutorial.

Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

Handle hundreds of HTTP requests, disk writes, and other I/O-bound tasks with quintessential async Python libraries.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jan 18, 2022 • 14 min read
Concurrency
Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

Execute multiple tasks concurrently in Python with Asyncio: Python's built-in async library.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jan 4, 2022 • 10 min read
Concurrency
Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

Easily install and manage multiple versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04 or newer.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Feb 24, 2021 • 7 min read
DevOps
Create Google BigQuery Tables via the Python SDK

Create Google BigQuery Tables via the Python SDK

Use Google Cloud's Python SDK to insert large datasets into Google BigQuery, enjoy the benefits of schema detection, and manipulating data programmatically.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Feb 8, 2021 • 11 min read
Google Cloud
Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

Use Pandas and Plotly to create cloud-hosted data visualizations on-demand in Python.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Sep 3, 2020 • 8 min read
Plotly
Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

Write and deploy Golang Lambda Functions to your GatsbyJS site on Netlify.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Aug 2, 2020 • 9 min read
JAMStack
Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Supercharge your scraper to extract quality page metadata by parsing JSON-LD data via Python's extruct library.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jun 29, 2020 • 13 min read
Python
Build it with Terraform

Build it with Terraform

Provision Google Cloud infrastructure using Hashicorp Terraform. Spin up instances of CloudSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and more.
David Aquino
David Aquino
Jun 9, 2020 • 4 min read
Hashicorp
Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

Deploy a self-hosted Go web application using Nginx as a reverse proxy.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jun 1, 2020 • 8 min read
Golang
4 Ways To Improve Your Plotly Graphs

4 Ways To Improve Your Plotly Graphs

Making high-quality data visualizations is a critical skill for Data Scientists. Learn how to get better at it using Plotly's Python library.
Dylan Castillo
Dylan Castillo
May 25, 2020 • 8 min read
Data Analysis
Create Your First Golang App

Create Your First Golang App

Set up a local Golang environment and learn the basics to create and publish your first 'Hello world' app.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
May 25, 2020 • 12 min read
Golang
Creating Interactive Views in Django

Creating Interactive Views in Django

Create interactive user experiences by writing Django views to handle dynamic content, submitting forms, and interacting with data.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Apr 23, 2020 • 20 min read
Django
Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

Host Python apps on your own server. Set up uWSGI to serve your app concurrently while handling incoming traffic with Nginx.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Feb 22, 2020 • 12 min read
DevOps
A Brief History of Pandas

A Brief History of Pandas

A nuclear test gone wrong, high finance, and some convenient code!
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Feb 17, 2020 • 5 min read
Pandas
A Redis instance storing an assortment of data.

Using Redis In-Memory Storage for your Python Applications

Leverage in-memory data storage to cache data, handle user sessions, and avoid database transactions to keep your Python app snappy.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Feb 5, 2020 • 11 min read
NoSQL
Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

Revolutionize your development workflow with an elegant CLI to handle dependencies, environments, configuration, and packaging.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jan 26, 2020 • 8 min read
Python
SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

Automate remote server tasks by using the Paramiko & SCP Python libraries. Use Python to SSH into hosts, execute tasks, & transfer files.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Jan 3, 2020 • 20 min read
Python
Being REALLY Lazy With Multiple Aggregations in Pandas

Being REALLY Lazy With Multiple Aggregations in Pandas

Perform multiple aggregate functions simultaneously with Pandas 0.25
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Dec 9, 2019 • 3 min read
Code Snippet Corner
Faster Python APIs in Two Minutes

Faster Python APIs in Two Minutes

My favourite utility function that I have written since coming into Python.
Paul Armstrong
Dec 8, 2019 • 4 min read
Python
Getting Started with Django

Getting Started with Django

The crash-course for newcomers to Python’s largest web framework. Create your first functioning Django web application.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Dec 4, 2019 • 19 min read
Django
Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 18.04

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 18.04

Easily install and manage multiple versions of Python on Ubuntu 18.04 or older.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Dec 2, 2019 • 5 min read
DevOps
CentOS KVM guests as Docker Swarm Mode nodes

CentOS KVM guests as Docker Swarm Mode nodes

Create CentOS images for use as Docker Swarm nodes.
Ryan Rosado
Ryan Rosado
Nov 24, 2019 • 3 min read
DevOps
Splitting Columns With Pandas

Splitting Columns With Pandas

Split columns containing multiple values in your Pandas DataFrame into multiple columns, each containing a single value.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Nov 19, 2019 • 7 min read
Code Snippet Corner
Simplify BigQuery ETL jobs using SQLAlchemy

Simplify BigQuery ETL jobs using SQLAlchemy

Extract and move data between BigQuery and relational databases using PyBigQuery: a connector for SQLAlchemy.
Todd Birchard
Todd Birchard
Nov 16, 2019 • 8 min read
Data Warehouses
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Series'

Data Analysis with Pandas 11
Build Flask Apps 11
Google Cloud Architecture 6
Learning Apache Spark 6
Mastering SQLAlchemy 4
GraphQL Tutorials 4
Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
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