Todd Birchard

One of my earliest frustrations with Python development had nothing to do with Python itself, but rather the needlessly esoteric act of deploying a Python app. Code bootcamps and...

In terms of technical ingenuity, Google BigQuery is probably the most impressive data warehouse on the market. BigQuery differs from other data warehouses in that the underlying...

It's a tale as old as time: your company has multiple instances of the same dataset which should match, but for whatever reason, don't. An obvious example that comes to mind might...

It's a tale as old as time: your company has multiple instances of the same dataset which should match, but for whatever reason, don't. An obvious example that comes to mind might...

It's a tale as old as time: your company has multiple instances of the same dataset which should match, but for whatever reason, don't. An obvious example that comes to mind might...

It feels as thought static site generators are experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity amongst developers. In reality, we're only at the very beginning of a paradigm that will...

It feels as thought static site generators are experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity amongst developers. In reality, we're only at the very beginning of a paradigm that will...

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve surely noticed the epidemic overtaking the developer community known as Gatsby fever. I wish I could say I’m not the...

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve surely noticed the epidemic overtaking the developer community known as Gatsby fever. I wish I could say I’m not the...

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve surely noticed the epidemic overtaking the developer community known as Gatsby fever. I wish I could say I’m not the...

Cloud providers have made a killing from neatly-packaged managed services for years. Whether it be databases or message brokers, developers like ourselves don't seem to have a...

I’m no stranger to broadcasting my thoughts, opinions, and occasional lack of knowledge across the eternal internet. I would likely find that fact to be regrettable, if my...

I’m no stranger to broadcasting my thoughts, opinions, and occasional lack of knowledge across the eternal internet. That said, I do pride myself on one thing as a shameless...

I’m no stranger to broadcasting my thoughts, opinions, and occasional lack of knowledge across the eternal internet. I would likely find that fact to be regrettable if my...

I've had a few strongly worded opinions about Java as a language in the past. Be that as it may, choosing a programming language is a luxury that many people don’t have; as long...

I've spent the majority of my life dreading an eternal question that governs our lives. You know the one. It's the one that comes after our ritualistic handshakes and "nice...

There are plenty of good reasons to use SQLAlchemy, from managing database connections, to easy integrations with libraries such as Pandas. If you're in the app-building business,...

We've had quite a journey exploring the magical world of PySpark together. After covering DataFrame transformations, structured streams, and RDDs, there are only so many things...

I recently worked on a project which combined two of my life's greatest passions: coding, and memes. The project was, of course, a chatbot: a fun imaginary friend who sits in your...

We've spent an awful lot of time in this series speaking about DataFrames, which is only one of the 3 data structure APIs we can work with in Spark (or one of two data structure...

It seems like almost every data-heavy Python shop is using Airflow in some way these days. It shouldn't take much time in Airflow's interface to figure out why: Airflow is the...