Local Testing for GCP Cloud Functions
It’s easy to write Google Cloud Functions in Python. The trick is to put a function that takes a single object in a file called main.py. Their example is simply: def hello_world(request): """Responds to any ...
Up and Running with AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a managed service that can really help simplify ETL work. In this blog I’m going to cover creating a crawler, creating an ETL job, and setting up a development endpoint. Since Glue ...
Managing Python environments with direnv
A few months ago I discovered direnv and was surprised how I got along so well with out it. From the website, direnv ” allows project-specific environment variables without cluttering the ~/.profile file.” I used ...
Creating dynamic headers in Reportlab
When writing code to make a report, you never truly know what you are going to get into. In a recent Python project, I was using the excellent ReportLab libraryand things were going smoothly. But then ...
Creating Raw SQL Migrations in Django
I am using Django, which has great support for PostgreSQL-specific functions in it’s ORM. I wanted to use a SearchVectorField inside my application and PostgreSQL recommends creating a trigger for to populate that column. Well that was easy enough but I ...
Managing Multiple Python Instances
The problem with working on different Python codebases is the versioning and the large amounts of libraries available. Say you are working on a data science project using Pandas and then suddenly your boss wants ...
Converting Maven Dependencies to Gradle
I had the, er, honor of converting an old ANT build to Gradle. It was one of those with the directories filled with jars and was having a hard time figuring out what dependency was ...
Getting Started With Amazon Alexa Development
In the last few years Amazon has been able to capture a significant share of the home assistant market with the help of the Echo product family. Starting with the audio only product line, Dot, Tap, and ...