Go channels
Go uses goroutines to execute multiple bits of code at the same time. Channels allow for the aggregation of the results of these concurrent calls after they have finished.
Thought Eddies
Go closures
Say we need a map to store various versions of a configuration in Go. Here is a simple example of the structure:
Custom Markdown rendering
Markdown is useful tool -- these blog posts are written in it. I like Markdown because once you learn it, it feels invisible. It is minimal and intuitive. However, sometimes you need it to do things a little differently.
Creating a Go module
Creating a Go module
Quickstart `supervisor` guide
supervisor is a UNIX utility to managing and respawning long running Python processes to ensure they are always running. Or according to its website: Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.
Querying S3 with Presto
Querying S3 with Presto
Creating a Presto Cluster
Creating a Presto Cluster
Creating an Elixir module
Creating an Elixir module
Git aliases
Here's a quick post for managing your git shortcuts. If you use git regularly, you should have a .gitconfig file in your home directory that looks something like this:
PySpark dependencies
Recently, I have been working with the Python API for [Spark][pyspark] to use distrbuted computing techniques to perform analytics at scale. When you write Spark code in Scala or Java, you can bundle your dependencies in the jar file that you submit to Spark. However, when writing Spark code in...