Truffle is an amazing suite of tools created by Consensys to develop smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain network. However, it can be a bit jarring to make the leap from local development to the real test network, ropsten. Required Setup For this walk through, I...
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Discover AWS State Machines using Python Lambdas for an ETL process
Step Functions, State Machines, and Lambdas oh my! AWS has really been expanding what you can do without needing to actually stand up any servers. I’m going to walk through a very basic example of how to get going with your own Python code to create an...
Continue reading...Uploading large files by chunking – featuring Python Flask and Dropzone.js
It can be a real pain to upload huge files. Many services limit their upload sizes to a few megabytes, and you don’t want a single connection open forever either. The super simple way to get around that is simply send the file in lots of...
Continue reading...Is it easier to ask for forgiveness in Python?
Is Python more suited for EAFP[note]Easier to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission[/note] or LBYL[note] Look Before You Leap[/note] coding styles? It has been debated across message boards, email chains, stackoverflow, twitter and workplaces. It’s not as heated as some other battles; like how spaces are better...
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Often times in python there comes a need to have multiple functions act in a similar manner. It could be anything from making sure that similar functions output the right type of result, they all log when they are called or all report exceptions in the...
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