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...Interprocess Communications
Dealing with communications across programs, processes or even threads can be a real pain in the patella. Each situation usually calls for something slightly different and has to work with a limited set of options. On top of that, a lot of tutorials I see are people...
Continue reading...ThreadPools explained – In the deep end
Thread and Multiprocessing Pools are an underused feature of Python. In my opinion, they are the easiest way to dip your feet into concurrency, and yet still the method I use most often. They allow you to easily offload CPU or I/O bound tasks to a...
Continue reading...The Birthday Paradox – The Proof is in the Python
This month is my wife’s, mother’s and my own birthday, all within a span of nine days. What are the odds of that? No idea, I’m no statistician. However, as a developer, I thought it would be fun to prove (or disprove?) the Birthday Paradox with...
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