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Todd Birchard

Todd Birchard

Engineer with an ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning best practices. Completely normal and emotionally stable.
New York City
https://toddbirchard.com
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
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
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 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

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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
Web Scraping With Python 2
Getting Started with Django 2
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  • Build Flask Apps
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  • Learning Apache Spark
  • Google Cloud Architecture
  • Create a REST API in AWS
  • GraphQL Tutorials
  • Mastering SQLAlchemy
  • Hacking Tableau Server
  • Working with MySQL
  • Welcome to SQL
  • Mapping Data with Mapbox
  • Python Concurrency with Asyncio
  • Web Scraping With Python
  • Getting Started with Django

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