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In 2018, make it a goal to interact with as many users of your application as possible. Even better, start a formal practice of testing your...
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Learn how to set up and manage AWS Snowflake, including architecture, data handling, and loading data with expert guidance from Metal Toad.
The Raspberry Pi is great if you want a dedicated device for a task that you can turn on, get it to do its thing and leave it alone.
Angular 4.3 introduced a new HttpClient service, which is a replacement for the Http service from Angular 2. It works mostly the same as the old...
Background and problem description In late 2016 we were approached with an opportunity to build a data pipeline for one of our large clients.
In my last post, I wrote about the cost of tech debt, using a case study of skyrocketing hardware costs.
Over the past year I've been building a cloud-based data pipeline for a client focusing on IoT data aggregation.
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With the rise of Big Data™ and IoT we saw a large wave of NoSQL™ proponents. Everyone began to jump on the bandwagon and hype trains to use these...
Django 2.0 is in beta now. It's expected to be released in December 2017. The question remains, is the rest of the world going to be ready? Let's...
"Grove Park Traincare Depot and sidings" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by train_photos
In April of 2017 I put a widget on my phone that reminds me that I’m going to die. This is how it improved my life. A long time ago I learned about...
Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database isn't too hard, most of the time.
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