Intro to API Driven Automation
Automation has become a key factor in improving efficiency and streamlining business operations. Organizations that effectively leverage automation find themselves with a competitive advantage over...
View ArticleHappy 20th Rails!
As many of you might know Rails is now twenty years old; that’s two years older than it needs to be to able to be executed by the state or sent to kill people on the other-side of the world in the US,...
View ArticleETL: Extract
As organizations grow and evolve, so do their technology stacks and the quantity of import data being generated by those tools. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for firms to be unable to leverage the...
View ArticleSyncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably faced the classic problem of everything working swimmingly on your test / staging environment, but the end users hitting some weird issue on production. This...
View ArticleETL: Transform
In my previous post, we explored the first step of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process—Extraction. Today, we move on to the heart of ETL: Transformation. Turns out your legacy data is really...
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Surfing the WSL Wave
With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed. Technically there are two flavors of WSL, WSL 1 and WSL 2....
View ArticleETL: Load
Last week we discussed the transform phase of ETL and now it’s time to wrap it up with the Load phase. The Load phase is where transformed data is deposited into its target destination, whether that’s...
View ArticlePallet Town: Rails Concerns
As you dive deeper into Ruby on Rails, you might notice your models and controllers starting to bloat with methods and logic. This not only makes your code harder to read but also tougher to maintain....
View ArticleSunday Funday Learn to Code for Kids 8-12
One of the greatest gifts we can give the next generation is the ability to code. It’s the language of creation in our digital world, and teaching kids as young as eight to start thinking logically and...
View ArticleChained to Complexity: Python Dependency Management
Dependency management in software development is often akin to playing an elaborate game of Jenga where everyone involved is on their third IPA: every block you move introduces the risk of toppling the...
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